RE: Fw: Remote Control

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> christopher purves
> Sent: 18 January 2006 13:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Fw: [ukha_d] Remote Control
>
> Why touchscreen out of interest ?
>
> My pronto is now consigned to the bin in favour of a .....
>
> Logitech Harmony ....
>
> just fantastic - just works.
>
> Wife loves it, baby sitter loves it, nanny loves it,  I love it.
>
> The built in help and actions are how remotes should work.

Remotes are personal preference - myself I like to see a remote and every
button that is there has to have a function *NOW* - hence I hate hard
buttoned remotes where some buttons are only used at certain times or some
buttons aren't even used at all.

The wife and I would never use a "buttoned" remote over the
Pronto now and
if you're about to say that you like to be able to use a remote without
having to look at it then most things on our Prontos can be done like that
as I have spent quite some time tweaking my config so that devices are
almost completely consistent in layout - transport and menu access controls
are always in the same places across different devices (DVD, VCR, TiVo,
PVR,
MCE etc.)

Myself - I wouldn't touch a Harmony as it doesn't suit what I want from a
remote...

> Further to configure the harmony its the work of 20 mins..... a pronto
can
> take weeks and as soon as you change your dvd player the nightmare
begins
> again.

Beg to differ - if you have programmed your Pronto sensibly then you can
change in and out bits of kit in minutes.

For example I recently changed my Thomson DHD4000 PVR for a Humax PVR and
all I did was relearn the keys that I needed from the remote into the basic
"keys" panel that I have for each device (and which all the
actual keys you
see on the screen are mapped to) and it just works - probably less than a
minute of updating to have it learned and working.

Similarly when I added a second DVD player into my stack, I duplicated the
existing DVD player (removing the "choose disc" button as the new
player
wasn't a DVD jukebox unlike the existing one), learned the keys into the
keys panel (which is never seen in use as it is a hidden panel and *poof* -
everything works straight off the bat.

> It took 2 mins to change the telly on my harmony remote.

Yup - it shouldn't take long on either unit...

Phil