Dear Remote Central visitors,

Although not very visible until today, Philips
has always been here visiting the site every day.

Today we want to take the opportunity to express
our appreciation to you for the valuable feedback
you gave, you are giving and we hope you will
continue to give us. Your passionate e-mails and
posts (all of them) are a strong motivation for
the entire Philips Pronto Team. The feedback
on Remote Central is also a way to help influence
new generations of Pronto hardware and software.
It has been with your help that the current Pronto
line has introduced many more features than the
original TS1000.

Obviously this is possible thanks to Daniel and
to the beautiful place he has created. As a manufacturer,
Philips did not participate actively in the discussions
out of respect to the independent community and
Daniel. Unfortunately this already happens way
to often in discussion forums where manufacturers
use the anonymity a forum can bring to influence
consumers. Daniel and Remote Central have gained
their reputation because of Daniels honesty in
his reports and by keeping his site a user community
and not a marketing site for manufacturers.

We met Daniel again at the Cedia 2003 Show and
he has invited us to take a more active role on
Remote Central interacting with the community
in explaining, offering feedback and updates to
Pronto products. We gladly accept the invitation
and will participate with the “ProntoTeam” username.
The ProntoTeam will answer objectively and unbiased
on Pronto questions.

Please keep in mind that we are working on taking
your feedback and developing future Pronto remote
controls. Therefore we will not be able to answer
each and every question. We will do our best
to communicate more about upcoming releases: when
they will be posted and if we are working on a
solution for a bug you have encountered. If you
however run into something that you believe has
not been documented please use the feedback forms
on http://www.Pronto.Philips.com

As a heads up the New iPronto Editor and firmware
shown at CEDIA went live on Tuesday 9.16.03 offering:

Dashboard
· Improvement on the readability on iPronto through
better rendering and anti-aliasing of fonts.
Remote control (in combination with iProntoEdit
2.2)

· Support for transparent button backgrounds
for easy button placement and more advanced designs.

· A new home page for the remote control, that
makes use of the transparency feature.

· Support for iProntoEdit 2.1, which offers merging
of different iCF files.

Network Extender
· Support for network extender to control devices
that are not in line-of-sight.

Electronic Program Guide
· Extension of the Electronic Program Guide to
also include European program information.

iProntoEdit 2.2
· Support for iPronto Network Extender to control
devices that are not in line-of-sight.

· Create pages with transparent button backgrounds
for easy button placement and more advanced designs.

· Add Portable Network Graphic files (PNG) with
pre-defined alpha-channel to define transparency
behavior.

Problems solved
· Remote control inconsistency solved that caused
malfunctioning of buttons with learned IR codes.
Now buttons that are created as a copy of another
button can have their own unique learned codes.

· General improvements on all applications regarding
stability and performance.

Regards
Your

Philips ProntoTeam