A thousand pound remote control for your TV?
It is a thousand pounds, but not in the way you think. The Philips Pronto Professional TSU-9600 remote costs a thousand British pounds. I've looked at the Pronto line before because they're fully customizable, support a touchscreen interface and work with just about every electronic device you'd want to control. What Philips doesn't control is the price on these; everytime I get close to saving my pennies, they have a new model that costs more. ;)
The TSU-9600 sports a 2.7-inch VGA touchscreen, infrared, speech support and WiFi. If we could just get it to run Windows XP Tablet Edition, we'd have another UMPC choice!
-kct
The question here should be, why don't UMPC have a strong IR port (I mean something that can have the same range as a normal remote) and have a NEVO like software on it. I have an IPAQ 5450 with NEVO on it and found it useful once in a while, mainly when I travel, half the time in hotels, the TV remote is missing. dead, some keys not working or is glued to the table, so I use the IPAQ. With one of the use of the UMPC being on the couch web browsing and watching TV at the same time, why reach for the remote if you had a remote software in the UMPC you are already holding. Maybe the solution would be for somebody to create a bluetooth remote that you leave sitting on the coffee table.
Posted by: Richard L | August 30, 2006 at 09:20 AM
Because the UMPC is a PC you could use somthing like stardraw control to create an interface that would connect via wifi to any of the ethernet connect IR senders out there.
Posted by: back_ache | October 10, 2006 at 04:20 AM