I hate to say it but the T2 blows away the Pronto. It is soooooo easy to program, maybe too easy. You can do AMX style of conditional statements in the macro editor. I love it, I want one noooow!

Actually I think they're different enough they will have separate market segments as well as the overlap.

The T2 is more expensive and is hard-button based with a touch-screen extension - less visual and button flexibilty, but more functionally efficient.

The Pronto lets you be much more artsy-crafty, but is less efficient functionally, and I would tend to think less robust.

We're lucky to have both available. I doubt I'll get rid of my Pronto when my T2 gets here. Gotta have back-up :-).

DJ

the biggest problem is screen breakage. we're replacing up to 30% of the prontos we've sold.

To be honest with you, I hate the way the T2 looks. I also prefer the Prontos large touch screen. Id have a hard time paying $700 for a remote like the T2, but to each his own. I also find the Pronto fun to program. Well to each his own. Hope you enjoy your new remote!

Jeff,

To each his own, but why would you have a hard time spending $700.00 for a remote. The average low-end home theater now days cost about 10 to 15 grand for everything, and goes up considerably from there. What component in you system do you use the most, gets the most use, used by everyone that wants to use your theater? THE REMOTE!

So lets say that you have invested 15 grand into a great little theater, by getting a $300.00 remote you have invested a whopping 2% of your hard earned money into the one piece of equipment that gets the must abuse and makes the whole thing work!

It’s like buying a Porsche with a lawnmower engine in it!

Just my 2 cents.

Dell

I'm real interested because of the hard buttons it has in addition to the LCD. In fact, I have a HomeVision control unit which has all my logic for controlling my home theater setup (including sensing probes and IR routing) so I probably won't be using tons of the program logic that the T2 offers (but may in the future....). However, I DO NOT like using buttons like cursor controls on a LCD screen and that will steer me away from LCD only remotes.

The only reason I would have that hard of a time shelling out that much money, is because my Pronto can do almost everything that this remote can (- RF) for half the price. RF is nice, but I dont think its a $350 option. The only complaint I have with the pronto are the egronomics of it. I have big hands & I still have trouble with it. As far as hard buttons go, I only really seem to use the volume & channel buttons for this, so the pronto works for me. I Cant realy justify the "just because I spent 1 million on my HT, I have to spend 1/3 million on the remote". To me that statement sound like someone trying to justify the cost of something. Ill stick the pronto for now. Enjoy!

Jeff,

Not to belittle your decision, but an IR-only version of the T2 is available for $430, including the charger and two batteries. That's pretty much right on the money with the Pronto.

As it is, I spent much more than that on MY Pronto, having stepped on it and having to pay $200 after tax and shipping for a replacement because of the broken LCD. And that took almost three months to get - talk about cold turkey!

DJ

Jeff,

You must have discrete codes for all of your components. I have an inkling that most of the people raving about the T2 are those who want one touch turn on macros but have components with toggle type power commands.

The T2 will be extremely popular with professional installers because of two reasons:

The first reason is the aforementioned conditional handling of power commands based on the actual power status of the component.

The second reason is the ease of programming. I have taught classes for installers around the country on both the Pronto/RC5000 and the Lexicon 700T. The learning curve for the 700T is about one tenth that of the Pronto/RC5000.

The programming software for the Pronto/RC5000 is basicly barely evolved development software. It uses more mouse clicks per action than anything ever seen. The RTI IR Library manager is the most competently designed interface for QUICKLY programming IR codes I have ever seen. The opposite of the ProntoEdit method.

That is a very sincere compliment! I designed the programming interface for the Niles IntelliControl with Hector Aguirre (of Elan) and I have helped other companies develop their interfaces.