The frustrating thing for a lot of NG users (myself included) is that the NG has all the credentials to be a great remote if Philips would just LISTEN to their 3000 customers, perhaps in the same way they listened to Lyndel, Andrea, Peter and Archer for the 7000?. This firmware update is all good and well but it doesn't address the simple problems people have been crying out for since Day One - for example, the backlight turn-on issue highlighted by fleetwood - this IS almost certainly a relatively simple fix.
Oh and whilst I'm on a rant, can we curtail the endless "the TSU7000 fixes that" and "the TSU7000 is better at x, y and z over the 3000" comments. They're tiresome and do nothing more than irk the already annoyed 3000 owners - we shouldn't have to upgrade to a $999 remote to get some of these issues resolved.