The following page was printed from Remote Central.com: Philips Pronto NG new shortcut keys and menus; graphical linking and improved button-to-button copying; button alignment and spacing tools; JPG support; redesigned IR code screens with IR duration; image extraction; plus other usability improvements. Requires firmware v or newer. Designed for: Philips Pronto Pro NG TSU7000 & RU980 Philips Pronto Pro NG TSU7500 & RU990 Philips Pronto Edit NG v3 Software Manual Added in 2011 | 3,232 views Original software manual & programming help guide for PENG v3, in Adobe Acrobat. PDF format. Designed for: Philips Pronto NG TSU3000 & RU950 Philips Pronto NG TSU3500 & RU960 Philips Pronto Pro Edit NG v2 Software Manual Added in 2011 | 5,310 views Original software manual & programming help guide.
Design The Pronto RU980 (also sometimes referred to as the TSU7500) is truly beautiful to look at. The touch screen is big enough to accommodate buttons for people with normal-sized fingers. Unfortunately, even with all this space, the unit packs in so many controls for every possible device that we felt like we spent an inordinate amount of time flicking through pages of controls. Of course, with the software that comes with the unit the user can cut out some of the unnecessary buttons and pages — that is, once they figure out how to use it. More on that in the Performance section. Features The Pronto RU980 is all screen, with some configurable controls framing it on the right, below and on the left edge of the unit. It comes with a basic default setup that is ready to control your TV, preamp, CD recorder, even your automatic curtains, but as we mentioned earlier, that ends up being a lot of pages to flip through. The charging cradle for the unit holds the remote snugly — in fact, too snugly. It was a tug of war to remove the unit, and we winced every time we managed to wiggle it loose, wondering what it was doing to the tiny pins in the connecting point. ( Fortunately, we looked at the manual and found that you're supposed to tilt the remote up 30 to 45 degrees before pulling it out — odd.) The unit also comes with a USB cable for connection to the PC and a rechargeable battery. The supplied manual is necessarily thick — there are a lot of functions to digest. Philips claims there is no limit to the number of devices the Pronto RU980 can control — we would guess it's more an issue of how much device info will fit into the unit's 32 MB of memory. Performance As with most of the high-end remotes we test, we took a look at how much the remote would allow you to do without being tethered to the PC. With the Pronto, this was quite a lot. We were able to get the unit to.
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