The # button is for titles which begin with a number. The button in the last row with the key symbol is there for a future use yet to be determined at this point. If you tap on that button it just beeps at you. I needed to complete that row with some kind of button. The key symbol looked the best and made the most sense to use as I could easily see it being used to access restricted titles for a given genre once entering a password. Good guess wjjz.

As for help pages, none are included in my XCF as I came up with a clever way to identify for the user what the Home, Menu, and Guide buttons do from any given page/device. On the right side of each activity based page are three buttons. Each correspond with the Menu, Guide, and Home hard buttons in that order and are labeled as such below the primary label for each button using a smaller font as seen here. This eliminated the need for help pages in my XCF as the other hard buttons on the remote are only programmed with their intended functions including the OK button. As for the firm key labels, unlike my TSU7500 PCF, the firm key labels in my XCF are visible from all pages. This ensures the user always knows what the firm keys are programmed to do.

Now there are some exceptions to the rule however. The first is with regards to the power button and page up and down buttons. The power button is not used to power down my system or anything else for that matter. Using it for this purpose would be a waste in my opinion. It is my Home button taking the user back to the Activities page or browsing them backwards first if they are under a non-activity based device such as my display, audio, or lighting devices. Additionally, the activity icon in the top left corner of each page functions as my Home button as well. The power button is used for one other purpose at times in conjunction with the page up and down buttons. As with my TSU7500 PCF, I have conditional pages which come up when starting a given activity or shutting my system on or off. The big difference with my XCF as seen here is that soft buttons are no longer used to answer the questions on these conditional pages. Firm keys 2,3, and 4 are used instead labeled yes, no and cancel. This allows for using the firm key buttons or firm key labels on screen. If you prefer however, page up, down, and the power button can be used. Page up for yes, page down for no, and the power button for cancel. Also, when on my "Activities" page, page up is used for "System On" and page down is used for "System Off". Other than that the page up and down buttons are only used in their classic sense, to browse the visible pages of a given device.

So as you can see, the changes I've made with my XCF over my PCF have eliminated the need for help pages. This was all part of a larger objective however. That objective was to optimize the overall interface so that one could fully navigate the interface via hard buttons or soft buttons based on their preference. Having soft buttons on each page representing the Menu, Guide, Home, and Power buttons takes care of those functions. Having the firm key labels visible on all pages takes care of that front. For the page up and down functions firm keys are used when available such as with my DVD Juke device and conditional pages. When firm keys are not available a transparent button is used set to Page down and placed over top of the header label. In addition, the Activities page and DVD Juke Menu pages have been optimized for both hard button or soft button use. The Activities page can be navigated in one of two ways. You can simply tap on an activity button answering the questions via the firm key label buttons as you are prompted, or you can use the directional pad to hightlight any given activity button, pressing OK to start up that activity, then using the firm keys or page up (yes), page down (no), and power (cancel) buttons to answer the questions when prompted. As for the DVD Juke menu, you can now tap on any given genre/category to go directly to its Index page. Alternatively, you can use the directional pad to highlight a particular genre/category as you must do with my TSU7500 PCF, then hitting the OK button or Index (Guide or Firm Key 4) button to access its Index page.