RE: Philips Pronto Professional TSU9600 - Review

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark - good review.

Nice to have the video too as the remote appears smaller than it does in
th=
e other pics.

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mark McCall
> Sent: 22 January 2007 09:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Philips Pronto Professional TSU9600 - Review
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> We've just published our review of the new Philips Pronto Professional
> TSU9600, complete woth lots of photos, screenshots and a video...
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> 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.
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> 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 PDA
> 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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> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article1830.html
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> M.
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