Originally Posted by RMabo 
I have been a Pentax SLR users since 1988, and since then - Pentax has been declared as "dying" at least every year. In the early 90's, Pentax was said to prepare for killing the SLR line and going strictly with the highly successful Espio range. The success of the MZ-serie changed that, if the MZ-serie had been a flop - Pentax SLR would be no longer. Pentax has had many years with uncertain future, they have "lived on borrowed time" for the last 10 years, and they still haven't died. It is just like Apple who was declared as knocked out in the middle of the 90's, but raised at the count of 10 and now is a highly successful company. As a Pentax user, I have learned to live with "Pentax will die!".
Yes but this does pose a larger risk now because Old Pentax was.. errr.. old and stubborn and "traditional". They went back to the drawing board and tried again. Call it pride, history whatever. Profit and logic didn't seem to keep them coming back to the well so to speak. Pride history and maybe a tad of despiration did. Things ARE completely different now. HOYA has no camera history, they have no love for it, just read everything they ever said about it..... not good. If Hoya owned Pentax at an earlier date, they would NOT have put up w/ the
past success/failure cycles.. Conjecture of course. They may have been a business but they were also Asahi in heart and soul.... sounds silly typing that.
They will be delisted, they are dead. Just a fact. What becomes of HOYA (branded Pentax) cameras is yet to be seen....but one thing SEEMS clear, this is there (as a whole unit) last harrah. HOYA shareholders (who never bought a camera company) will not stand for failure and Hoya shares currently tanking a bit are going to make them even a bit more skiddish...
I love your optimism, just I (big I) don't currently (subject to change) see it that way.....