New Product Possibility?

Spire_Jeff

I was talking with an A/V consultant last week and we were discussing the offerings by AMX in the keypad realm when I it dawned on me... why not package the R4 in a single gang (display only) and a double gang (Display with buttons) offering? Obviously this all hinges on the R4 actually being released and being functional, but I whipped together a couple of rough concepts

Jeff

P.S.
I was getting bored waiting for webupdate to download

vining

I like the R5 ver 2. A wired version that would eliminate the Zig Bee hardware could possibly drop the price enough to make it an alternative to the DMS but unless the price was significantly reduced it would make more sense to use the less expensive 5" modero.

Thomas Hayes

Nice design there Jeff I like the R5 ver.1
AMX get this guy a leather jacket.
The cost would be the only thing that scares me. If the unit was left 'as is' then you could save a lot of time pulling cable.

mpullin

I'd buy V1. I think it's more important to have the direction pad on there than the number pad because the customer is going to want to use the direction pad without looking down, like they would a traditional DVD or TiVo remote. This, IMHO, is the flaw in the new R-4 design. People like to put a thumb there and control the cursor by sliding the thumb up, down, in, etc. This is not possible if the direction pad is displayed on a screen.

On the other hand, no one is going to punch in a channel number without looking at the remote. I know *I* don't, anyway. Supply the customer with a bunch of favorite buttons, including buttons that allow them to save favorites by holding down the button for N seconds, and the number pad on the remote won't be missed.

That's just my two cents. I would vote for the keeping the directional pad hard as opposed to the number pad.