re: Ricavision Delays SideShow Remote...Again

chrisl — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:34:27 GMT

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.

re: Ricavision Delays SideShow Remote...Again

Adam — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:28:59 GMT

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.