RE: Pronto RU950 First Impresions

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

My postman even signs for packages for me so he (quote) "doesn't have
to ge=
t me out of bed"!

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...very small town - and we're hopefully getting a local council sponsored
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ADSL upgrade this year!!!

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Paul.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mouser [mailto:rmouser@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 03 April 2003 09:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Pronto RU950 First Impresions

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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

Rob Mouser
rmouser@xxxxxxx
rob@xxxxxxx


> -----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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