RE: Pronto RU950 First Impresions

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

LOL!

My postman even knows where the wife and I work. So he takes mail to
wherever he can find me.
The Pronto was actually shipped to my work address (Phil will
confirm:-)) but the postman knew I would not be there yet so took it to
my home :-)

One of the joys of a village location! No bloody broadband though :-(

Many thanks
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Rob Mouser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Abbott [mailto:steve.abbott@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 April 2003 08:57
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Pronto RU950 First Impresions
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> What!  That's it... how come you get special treatment :)
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> Gonna have words with my postman.......
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> 	-----Original Message-----
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> 	From: Rob Mouser [mailto:rmouser@xxxxxxx]
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> 	Sent: Thu 03/04/2003 08:31
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> 	To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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> 	Cc:
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> 	Subject: [ukha_d] Pronto RU950 First Impresions
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> 	Well thanks to Phil's key skills with selotape,  cardboard and
> licking
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> 	stamps, I have my 950, arrived this morning at 7.30am. Only had
> chance
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> 	to take a very brief look at it before flying out the door to
work.
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> 	Initial impressions:
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> 	- BUTT Ugly. How can Marantz get is so right in design terms and
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> 	Phillips so wrong.
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> 	- Very poor build quality, the plastic has a cheap tacky feel
about
> it,
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> 	NO WHERE near the build quality of the 940. Just remove the
battery
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> 	compartment and you'll see what I mean!
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> 	- Nice screen and backlight. Much better Res than the 940.
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> 	- No more silly contrast wheel on the side which causes SWMBO to
> change
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> 	the contrast in error due to wandering fingers (Ooooh er!).
Instead
> you
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> 	now have to hold the backlight button in while using the side
curser
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> 	buttons.
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> 	- Pre-loaded screens seemed to take a while to load/change. Is
the
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> 	increased     res at the expense of processing power?
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> 	So first impressions? Not good for =A3250! Perhaps I'll grow to
love
> it?
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> 	Many thanks
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> 	Rob Mouser
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> 	rmouser@xxxxxxx
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> 	rob@xxxxxxx
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> 	> -----Original Message-----
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> 	> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
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> 	> Sent: 02 April 2003 19:50
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> 	> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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> 	> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: New Pronto RU950 now available!
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> 	>
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> 	>
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> 	> > > I couldn't be arsed to have a play with it last night
so I
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> 	> > don't know
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> 	> > how the
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> 	> > > brightness compares with the old units in a domestic
> environment.
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> 	> >
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> 	> > Shame on you - you'll be selling up your HA kit next and
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> 	> > taking up needlecraft ;)
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> 	>
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> 	> Nah ... SWMBI invariably goes to bed about 10:30 and until
then I
> have
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> 	> to sit through mind-numbingly boring soaps and QVC "Todays
Special
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> 	> Value". Only after 10:30 do I get to spend a bit of time
playing
> and
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> 	at
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> 	> the moment I'm trying to get this media server stuff to a
stage
> where
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> 	it
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> 	> might be practical.
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> 	>
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> 	> Just haven't had time to play with the RU950 yet...
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> 	>
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> 	> Anyway ... I've noticed a couple of familiar names crop up on
> RU950
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> 	> orders over the last day or so so there should be a few
> "impartial"
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> 	> opinions floating about very shortly! (Obviously a couple of
our
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> 	> bretheren here have managed to get authorisation from change
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> 	control...)
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