If there are any particular questions, I can go through them tonight when I get back from work and try and answer some!
Can you do some pics/vid of the various colour-graded and inverse brightness modes, ideally with a nontrivial waveform like analogue video or AM.
Done and done, using an FM signal to really show the colour grading, and took a few with an AM modulation signal. Will go into this in a bit more detail soon as well. We've put some images and a short video here,
https://goo.gl/photos/Hxo3RtH6BPgohoSP6but : no vertical per channel knobs. massive fail.
The touchscreen, and I think the colouring of the vertical buttons with the currently selected channel may go some way to making this less of an issue once you get used to them.
The colour coding of the kpbs really does help usability a lot and I find I don't miss the separate controls using this, or indeed another R&S scope which has the same functionality. Definitely less of an issue than you'd expect.
By all means, who is going to be proud to show off to his friend about his new scope that he got, where the E indicates Economy.
If you have friends that really cares about that just tell them it stands for Enhanced and not Economy or scrape the letter off you're that embarrassed. You seem more interested in color schemes, what the knobs look like, what font is being used and how exactly the serial number is composed than what the instruments actually do.
Back to the R&S scope in question, how's the screen when it comes to glare and reflections? It looks rather glossy.
The screen looks really bad in the videos as we use a load of lighting pointing right at the scope, but in normal use it's very nice, and the high resolution screen comes out great. I've been using under pretty standard electronic bench lighting conditions, with lighting straight above it (mounted below a shelf) and had no problems at all.
with pattern generator. i hope it can do spi and i2c ... would be cool.
but : no vertical per channel knobs. massive fail.
Although it's a shame the levels aren't variable, they can spit out a lot of different protocols. I've put a screenshot on our blog, but to summarise here,
Counter, Arbitrary, Manual, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN and LIN. Someone needs to make a nice comparator with a variable supply to fix the last oversight and it's a very nice feature!
The screenshot showing this, plus loads of photos of the scope are at the link below. Hope that helps, and if more questions come up, we'll try to answer them!
http://wattcircuit.com/2017/03/14/watt-circuit-rohde-schwarz-rtb2004-oscilloscope-overview/