Cynical? Do I recall correctly 2009 is the year for "Minor" Upgrades to pentax dslrs? So lets see, PMA passed with no new 1.5x dslr and instead they offered the re-announcement of a 645D for Japan Market Only instead of the World. No touchy feely 645D camera , no specs, no price, no availability date offered.
Maybe you missed this? :
"Sometimes I suspect that one reason companies announce things so far in advance of their actual release is because it means they get to show the product at more than one photo show. I noticed (with a certain bemusement) that Pentax is announcing its medium-format digital camera yet again. This thing has been doing duty as an upcoming product at photo shows for so many years now that I wonder if it qualifies as some sort of Orwellian perma-vaporware, as unending as the distant wars in 1984 (or Afghanistan). I'll probably have snow-white hair and not be able to remember the way to my rocker and I'll still be reading about the Pentax medium-format digital camera that's just about to be released. Generally, it seems a condition of the New World: seasons flash past with a cloud of promised products always hovering tantalizingly just out of view. Imagine the money our strapped car companies could save if they could keep showing the same new models and the same concept cars at show after show, year after year. It would sure beat the challenge of having to come up with something new for every exhibition."
Clipped from here from a few days ago:
The Online Photographer
QUOTE=ewalk;517878]Or for the slightly less cynical among us:
Maybe it's hinting towards a fully-specced camera with features above the K20D in a K200D (or smaller!) body.
It makes sense to consolidate the K200D and the K20D, especially with the Km as the entry level.[/QUOTE]