Well, quite useful

Once you have finally conquered this blister packing, who thinks something awkward about opening ever made, you can start actually already. Inserted batteries and briefly take a look at the guide and off you go. TV (Universum 6 years old) and HD DVD recorder (Philips 2 years old) were set in less than 10 minutes. After 2 months, I have now programmed the old VHS recorder, which was commissioned in 5 minutes and to use it without the manual. Amazingly, the old VHS recorder of Panasonic is easily recognized, even though I bought the 25 years ago, but the stands there like new and still works just fine, but is indeed rarely used.

After more than 2 months of intensive use, I can now weigh up the advantages and disadvantages. A hervorzuhebender point is the ease of installation and the excellent guidance through the programming until you have identified the device. But that was about it.

The one negative to me that not all buttons are illuminated, who would do something? Hello There! I have in the dark "palpate" the numbers and hope that I have the right caught. The key for upshifting and downshifting is illuminated, but who would like to enter the channel number directly, will be left in the dark, just as the keys for the player to rewind, play, stop and recording. This is absolutely not, were all key unlit which could reasonably be sustained, but to illuminate a part and another part not know who thinks a thing like that out.

Another point of criticism is the wheel that lets you select the functions on the display. Although the wheel has 4 pressure points of the compass, but the menu can the cursor just by turning the wheel up or down move, but not by pressing the appropriate direction on the bike. Then provides the wheel when turning hardly any resistance, so that you can hear a detent times and sometimes not, of course, move the cursor then also like to 2 positions up or down. This makes navigating rather annoying. Unfortunately, the teletext can be reached only with who so much zaps through programs and times will briefly look for commands in the VT what's going on now, will quickly lose the joy. Here seperate button for VT would have been on and off better.

You really have to ask why are these days still designed devices. This device would be really great if it were intuitive, so you can choose to use the menu the wheel by rotating it or pressing up under the bottom. Sometimes you have to rotate it and sometimes push the logic behind this is not clear to me.

Conclusion: The remote has good ideas, but has just not thought of in many ways to the end, so that the benefit remains relatively limited.