Philips Pronto Professional TSU9600 - Review

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've just published our review of the new Philips Pronto Professional
TSU9600, complete woth lots of photos, screenshots and a video...


I've had the new Philips Pronto Professional TSU9600 for a little over a
week now so I thought it was time for some initial impressions.

The Harware Picking it up for the first time, the unit is probably smaller
and lighter than you'd imagine. The finish is glossy piano black with a
silver brushed effect surround. The stylus stores inside the unit like a
PD=
A
or SmartPhone, but it doesn't lock into place very well, although I haven't
needed to use it so far apart from calibrating the screen on initially
booting the device. The 3.7" 640x480 (VGA) screen is beautiful, as
you'd
expect in an =A3800 remote, and it sits flush with its surround which
helps=
to
give it a great viewing angle. The tilt sensor brings on the backlight when
its lifted just like the Sonos controller. There are over 20 hard keys
around the unit which are on the whole excellent. It's great to have a
proper cursor pad in particular when using it with devices like TiVo.
Strangely the scroll ring around the cursor pad is currently only used for
Escient media servers and is un-addressable in the software for any other
device. I've also find the hard keys directly under the screen for Play,
Stop Pause etc are a little too small...

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M.