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August 17, 2005
Those guys @ Philips...
As I mentioned the other day, we bought an Oppo OPDV971H DVD player with DVI out in preparation for the new HD TV we're planning to purchase on Monday.
We've had a Philips Pronto (TSU2000) for several years - having bought it on ebay for more than I ever expected to pay for "just a remote control." It's a great bit of tech. Basically a Palm Pilot with an IR port on steroids. You build control screens using some custom PC software, and download the configuration to the remote via a serial cable.
When we setup the TV room in the new house, and discovered that the movers had broken the Sony TV, I had substituted with the cheap TV that normally lives in the MAME cabinet.
Anyway - I had been reticent about updating the remote to be able to control the stand-in TV - so all the macros in the remote (that do handy things like turn everything necessary for watching DVDs on, and set all the components to the right sources) no longer turned on (or off) the TV.
The new DVD player was the necessary impetus to actually re-work the remote. Since Oppo isn't in the common IR code databases, and didn't have information on their IR codeset available (I emailed support, and they answered the same day), I learned the codes from the included remote, and built Pronto screens around them.
That remote (and the design software) is still cool - 8 years after it's initial release. Forward thinking, that.
Oh, and in case you got here looking for a CCF file for the Oppo. Try this
Posted by dberger at August 17, 2005 10:11 AM