Pronto RU950 First Impresions

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

Well thanks to Phil's key skills with selotape,  cardboard and licking
stamps, I have my 950, arrived this morning at 7.30am. Only had chance
to take a very brief look at it before flying out the door to work.
Initial impressions:

- BUTT Ugly. How can Marantz get is so right in design terms and
Phillips so wrong.
- Very poor build quality, the plastic has a cheap tacky feel about it,
NO WHERE near the build quality of the 940. Just remove the battery
compartment and you'll see what I mean!
- Nice screen and backlight. Much better Res than the 940.=20
- No more silly contrast wheel on the side which causes SWMBO to change
the contrast in error due to wandering fingers (Ooooh er!). Instead you
now have to hold the backlight button in while using the side curser
buttons.
- Pre-loaded screens seemed to take a while to load/change. Is the
increased     res at the expense of processing power?

So first impressions? Not good for =A3250! Perhaps I'll grow to love it?

Many thanks
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Rob Mouser
rmouser@xxxxxxx
rob@xxxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 April 2003 19:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: New Pronto RU950 now available!
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> > > I couldn't be arsed to have a play with it last night so I
> > don't know
> > how the
> > > brightness compares with the old units in a domestic
environment.
> >
> > Shame on you - you'll be selling up your HA kit next and
> > taking up needlecraft ;)
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> Nah ... SWMBI invariably goes to bed about 10:30 and until then I have
> to sit through mind-numbingly boring soaps and QVC "Todays
Special
> Value". Only after 10:30 do I get to spend a bit of time playing
and
at
> the moment I'm trying to get this media server stuff to a stage where
it
> might be practical.
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> Just haven't had time to play with the RU950 yet...
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> Anyway ... I've noticed a couple of familiar names crop up on RU950
> orders over the last day or so so there should be a few
"impartial"
> opinions floating about very shortly! (Obviously a couple of our
> bretheren here have managed to get authorisation from change
control...)
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> Phil
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