I just bought the Producer 8 and am a little confused. I was led to believe that the Cinema 7 allows any key to be taught commands and can be remapped as necessary. Is this true?

I bought the Producer 8 to give myself expandability, but it only learns on the L# keys, and they can't be remapped. Should I return it for one of the Cinema 7s?

I'm not familiar with the producer 8, but I can verify that the Cinema6 or 7 can learn on all keys but devices and SELECT, Stack commands on the same, remap commands on the same, and have macros on the same or stacked same. There is limited memory though, so I couldn't get mine quite to the degree of functionality my PRONTO offers. Being able to put functions on any key is a BIG PLUS! You can use names keys as memory hints where you put macros for example... I put an ALL OFF macro on SETUP then my EXIT key. The macro can be accessed no matter which device I'm using, but the normal EXIT function of that device still works. My TV supported Audio Swap on PIP so I put that command on SETUP then my PIP SWAP key. Regular swap still works, and I can swap the audio only by pressing SETUP then SWAP. Very nice.

Dave

I guess you are confused because you assumed if the Cinema6/7 allowed learning on any key, that the Producer 8 would as well. Never assume :-)

I think the *reason* the Producer 8 does not allow this is because, originally, the Producer 8 was not a learning remote at all. I think they just tacked on this feature very quickly, and the easiest way to do that was to only have it learn to the dedicated keys.

The Cinema6/7 arent supposed to learn to any key, they just do. So officially you arent losing any features by stepping up to the Producer 8.

We know better, of course!

Thanks for the quick feedback. Just goes to show spending more sometimes gets you less. I guess I'll return the Producer 8 ($50) & get the Cinema 7 Learning ($25).