bad news for me :( i found on web site following:
(if i understand right....there is no consumer IR
in 5550 and the Irda is not powerfull for remote
A/V use...so there is no way i could use this as
remote A/V controller???? very sad)
Marc Zimmermann [MVP]
>And, to be honest, I wasn't previously aware of the difference between IrDA
>and Consumer IR (had the 2 different terms been brought to my attention, I
>probably would have assumed that CIR was a marketing term for IrDA), nor
>that lack of CIR would preclude Nevo. Actually, I _still_ don't understand
>how IrDA and CIR differ.
Primarily range and signal strength. While IrDA can often be used for
remote controlling, it only works over a distance of a few feet.
>I'm not saying that Nevo is a great loss to me -- I found it not all that
>useful on the 3950. But I wondered if anything else has been rendered
>unavailable by the dropping of CIR. And why HP dropped it.
I assume that they did some research on whether the feature was used by the
primary audience of the high end device - business users. They likely have
found out that Nevo was not being used by 90% of owners so they stopped
integrating this hardware and paying for the license. Instead they added
the feature to the device that is primarily targeting the consumer market,
the H2200 series.
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