RE: Something for the weekend sir ?

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul

We went down the Nevo route for a few reasons.

As a comment posted by you previously - they are the right way round. Much
easier for people to use generally. The Pronto is better suited to the
Cinema Room where it is sitting on a table, but for SWMBO, Kids use the
Nev=
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is definitely better. And I think it will probably bounce better when it
falls of the arm of the chair :(

Nevo's costs us a little less, plus the distributors seem to be trying to
protect the channel by not allowing people to sell them direct without
programming. Both Armour and Universal Electronics indicate they police the
net to remove people selling direct. I know that UE wont repair units that
have not been sold via authorised channels.

Nevo is so much quicker and easier to program than the Pronto - NevoStudio
is a hundred times better than ProntoEdit. You can create stuff very
quickly. Two evenings was enough to have Activities, Sky Plus/TV
Favourites/DVDR/Slimp/Picture Frame/Amp/MCE2005/Cbus etc. all nicely
programmed and running - almost at a standardgood enough for a pro
install....

UE have the biggest database of IR in the world supposedly. And what they
havent got that philips may have you can import CCF with the IR on.

uPnP is interesting... - personally I find it a little flakey at present
an=
d
wouldn=92t be comfortable selling it yet - it will work with Sonos as a
uPn=
P
controller, Twonyvision server, Soundbrige renderer etc.

Wifi to IR is good to, you can cascade multiple units and get lots of IR
control - each extender does 6 IR's. One of the nice things about this is
that you can have 2 x Sky Plus or HD in the same rack - use two Wifi/IR
extenders each using emmiters, and you can then control both boxes
seperately.

No RS232 via Nevo though....




Dean.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gale
Sent: 05 April 2007 09:39
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Something for the weekend sir ?

Hi Dean,

I'm more interested in the NevoSL's - how are you finding them? (obviously
better than the prontos!)

Paul.

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> Unfortunately i've left this a little late for this weekend.
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> Selling on the net between =A3700 to =A3800.00
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> that for CI jobs, so the Philips now has no place to live....
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