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Ricavision Delays SideShow Remote...Again

Despite a newly added SideShow Remote category on Ricavision’s website, it doesn’t appear they are any closer to shipping the long awaited remote.  Their corporate website now says that the RICA100 will ship in January 2008.  August 2007 was listed as the target date up until now.  The price is still set at $300 for the SideShow Remote and docking cradle.

I wonder what the holdup is on these SideShow devices?  They are such a great idea, and yet Ricavision who appears to be one of Microsoft’s main partners has yet to ship a production device.  In late August they did supposedly ship a few of their reference design models for $250 however I’ve yet to hear from anyone who ordered or received one.

Published Sun, Oct 14 2007 16:29 by chrisl
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# re: Ricavision Delays SideShow Remote...Again

I was one of those people that shelled out some cash and had a sideshow remote delivered.

To be quite honest it feels very "iteration 1". I think they have a way to go before the remotes become highl;y usable.

Main issues that I have with it:

- terrible bluetooth performance. Half the time I click a button on the remote, it says it can't talk to my media pc

- terrible battery life. It goes flat in an hour or so

- terrible gadgets. Has *anyone* created a decent sideshow gadget yet? The standard MS music browsing one is plain awful. When I go into a genre it just lists all the songs in that genre. Why not show me the album covers.

- not enough standard buttons - my normal media pc remote has lots of useful buttons - my music, recorded tv etc. The ricavision one only has the basics.. next previous stop play etc.

So for me the remote is no good until a few of these items get sorted out.

Monday, October 15, 2007 3:28 PM by Adam

# re: Ricavision Delays SideShow Remote...Again

Thanks for the report Adam.

To make it clear though, that was very much the first revision.  It was a reference design, aka proof of concept.

The RICA 100 has all the standard buttons, and will hopefully improve on the things you said above.

Monday, October 15, 2007 4:34 PM by chrisl