Rubish, there's been a lot worse news.
Those are about the first results since Hoya took over.
It is absolutely normal for Hoya to take time changing what needs to be changed: that just doesn't take 1 week, it takes months, at least.
Even then, most of the results down aren't even Pentax related. Photomask has nothing to do with photography, neither or TFT masks.
They even state that the wanna enter the SLR lens market whatever this means exactly, we will see.
BTW, you might want to see what's out at Photokina: you might be surprised... or not.
