At the time when most consumer electronics assembly was migrating offshore, some local labor laws made moving Pronto to offshore production economically infeasible for Philips. It was cheaper to shut down the whole operation. Also it was beginning to seem like remote control would morph into inexpensive Apps and the programmable remote business would shrink anyway.

There was a time when eliminating that coffee table full of remotes was worth some money for enough people to build a viable business. Now, we have voice control remotes packed with self install cable company boxes and all of the peripheral devices are gone. True, there can be a phone packed with Apps that one needs to fumble through, but the kids seem to welcome fondling that phone.