I've been a happy owner of a Pronto RU950 for many years now, but recently some of the hard buttons have become unreliable (needing pressing hard or jiggling to make contact), and are getting worse. I'm sure that sooner or later it won't be possible to press them at all.
Therefore, I'm starting the process of looking for a replacement. Unfortunately, it appears that not only are Philips not producing them anymore, but no-one else is producing anything similar either. I suspect I'm just out of luck, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable here might be able to suggest something?
What I require from a remote:
1. At a minimum, hard buttons of volume, mute, 4 directions, and two others. More hard buttons are fine, I'm not wedded to the touchscreen of the RU950.
2. Ability to assign arbitrary device functions to any button - so I can have a mix of functions from different devices without switching modes or screens. It's OK if there are a couple of remote-specific buttons that can't be changed, but every normal button (power, volume, transport, etc.) should be assignable to any function of any device. Bonus points for user-definable button shapes and graphics on the screen like the Pronto, but not a hard requirement.
3. Macros, assignable to buttons, including delays/pauses and at least 7 steps.
4. Ability to switch modes or screens. Call them devices, activities, whatever. By switching to a different one, the same buttons do different things (but as specified in 2, each screen or mode may contain functions from different actual devices)
5. Ability to import pronto hex codes in some form would be very beneficial (I've already got all my discrete codes from long research and experimentation)
6. Programmable via PC.
7. I don't mind paying a bit, but lets keep it reasonable - if it's over $500 it would have to be perfect on all points, and over $750 just isn't going to happen.
So, is there *anything* out there that can replace a Pronto?
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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