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Philips, Ricavision follow Interlink with Vista SideShow Remotes
Remotes feature two-way RF for displaying music and other "gadgets" from Vista PCs.
SideShow remotes are coming out of the woodwork. The day after we reported about Interlink's design for a universal remote featuring the new Vista technology, similar products from Philips and Ricavision cropped up.
Engadget broke the news on Ricavisions's beauty (site goes live during CES), featuring a 2.5-inch QVGA LCD screen for displaying SideShow gadgets -- little bits of information like (Outlook appointments and electronic programming guides, for example) grabbed from Vista PCs, even without having to boot up.
The Ricavision product (shown above) uses IR for A/V control and Bluetooth for SideShow communications. Apparently Bluetooth is the RF of choice for the first version of the Microsoft technology.
According to Engadget, the Ricavision unit will ship in April, priced at $199.
Philips, too, is showing a SideShow remote, the TINO SRM7500/xx, on its Web site, but company spokespeople won't provide any more info than what's online. What's online is the usual: a two-way remote control with SideShow, featuring 2.4 GHz RF (we assume Bluetooth) for SideShow and IR for control of A/V devices.
Other new Vista Media Center remotes on the Philips site include (Below, clockwise from top left):
Engadget broke the news on Ricavisions's beauty (site goes live during CES), featuring a 2.5-inch QVGA LCD screen for displaying SideShow gadgets -- little bits of information like (Outlook appointments and electronic programming guides, for example) grabbed from Vista PCs, even without having to boot up.
The Ricavision product (shown above) uses IR for A/V control and Bluetooth for SideShow communications. Apparently Bluetooth is the RF of choice for the first version of the Microsoft technology.
According to Engadget, the Ricavision unit will ship in April, priced at $199.
Philips, too, is showing a SideShow remote, the TINO SRM7500/xx, on its Web site, but company spokespeople won't provide any more info than what's online. What's online is the usual: a two-way remote control with SideShow, featuring 2.4 GHz RF (we assume Bluetooth) for SideShow and IR for control of A/V devices.
Other new Vista Media Center remotes on the Philips site include (Below, clockwise from top left):
- Three varieties of IR remotes and one IR/RF remote that uses Philips' own RF technology
- USB IR transceiver module that supports two independent IR emitters
- Vista Beanbag USB IR transceiver that suports two indepdent IR emitters, and Vista Snowflake one-way USB IR receiver
- PC Express Card IR remote
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