Anybody looked at both?

I saw an ETown review that favored the IRIQ.

Great question JMR! I'm wanting that answer too!

I looked at the IRIQ at a local dealership in Louisiana and disliked it so much, its pathetic IR range, lack of freedom to layout buttons (fixed-grid), and the glare on the screen combined with small gfonts that I decided to buy the Pronto which I had never physically handled. When my Pronto arrived the day after Christmas I was delighted! The unit is wonderful and I have experienced no problems since its purchase. Gee I love my PRONTO!

Niether of these remotes are for the novice. After due consideration I purchased the Pronto I purchased it over the web from Cartronix (349.00 including the charging stand plus 15.00 shipping)there are many reasons to pick the Pronto over the IRIQ or what ever name it bears, but you have to be computer literate and patient. I have had it a week and havent finished setting it up. If you are the type that can get into this kind of stuff you will love it.

Just to defend TC1000 - seems to work pretty well, tho' a bit slow. Very easy to get initial set-up going, even for novice, but fine-tuning as always gets a bit more involved. Thumb-wheel is a really neat feature.

Not tried Pronto, maybe it's better but TC1000 works very well (certainly better then seven remotes I had before.....)

I first bought TC1000. Its IR range and small IR window forces you to point the remote at the device that you are trying to control. This made macro almost useless. I can't move my arm as fast as the macro runs :-).
I replaced it with Pronto. Now my four-year-old daughter can enjoy my Home Theater system too. I have PBS, DISNEY, VCR, and DVD logo on it for her. By pressing any of the logos, macros will set all the related equipment to the right mode. She does not need to lift the remote from coffee table.

If you like gadgets, it is also much more fun to program pronto than TC1000.

In the TC1000's "defense", I must say that I had IR range trouble with my Technics CD player, but by chance I relearned some of the codes, and since then the TC works in all situations for all my devices, even bouncing the signals off the walls.
Anyone out there having to direct the TC "hard" towards a device would be well advised to re-learn some buttons and see if this makes a difference. It may be something to do with using in-built codes as opposed to learned ones ? (although I fail to see why this would be so, it seems to work for me...)

I HAVE A TC1000. THE DAY I BROUGHT IT HOME I FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS AND CONNECTED IT TO MY PC SERIAL PORT AND THE PROGRAM WOULD NOT EXECUTE. I KEPT GETTING A MESSAGE "TC1000 NOT CONNECTED". I TOOK IT BACK TO THE STORE AND BROUGHT ANOTHER ONE HOME AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED. I HAVE A LAPTOP AND A DESKTOP, BUT ON EITHER UNIT I GOT SAME RESPONSE. HAS ANYONE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM? OR CAN THIS BE DUMB LUCK. I'M CONTEMPLATING GETTING A PRONTO. SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SOME INFO.

I got that error also. I found that you must have the unit plugged in and THEN start the software. Then it always worked.

Greg,

On your laptop do you connect a WinCE or Palm type device to the serial port? I found out that those devices have a little applet that runs continously and holds onto the serial port and if your laptop is like mine, you only have 1 serial port to begin with. Thus another device using that serial port cannot communicate until you turn off that applet.

Thanks,
Dennis