About the 9800, philips shoulded add one or two extra hard buttos under tHe screen. Will this big brother have a browser?

nope.

The hard buttons are Info and Return, known as PS_BACK and PS_EXIT in ProntoScript Dev Guide Appendix. Back and Exit from PEP1 Hard Button Links in Editor.

There are only 5 buttons beneath screen. I suspect they did this to avoid having to change graphics between 9600 and 9800.

The jog wheel is also metal one like on the 9400.

And... There's a switch on the back of docking station to turn off LED.

All this info is gleaned from experience and pics posted on www.OnlyOneRemote.com

Well I belive everybody that will get a 9800 will want to change grafics, with that size of screen we can avoid a lot of page jumps.

In my opinion all space in a remote control is precious.

For individuals not doing installs, does pepv2 really add anything that one can't already do with javascriptn patience, etc?

You have the abiltity to resize items on System Page, Change Text Color, Images...

You also have the ability to use different fonts. If you know how to edit the configuration file in the directory where the EXE is, you can even supply your own TrueType fonts.

You can resize any image.

You can put pages, devices and prontoscript modules in the gallery.

You can do a lot more with My Database.

The editor is much easier to use.

And lots more...

PEP v2 is out right now on the Phillips Pronto site. Downloading it right now......

Cool!

Oh hell. Installed PEP v2 on Vista x64 and when I try to run it, I get an error that Windows can't open it.......

How is that? The screen is larger but the resolution is the same. 640x480.

For those of you downloading, please, please, please take the time to read the FAQ link right by the download link. There are many things on which you will have questions. Please start with the FAQ.

And when you have read it ... read it again... and dont for get to keep a copy for PEP1....

Same resolution in a bigger screen = bigger butons. So you can use smaller buttons on the 9800 and squeeze a lot more in each page. Agree?

I think the removal of the links function is strait out DUMB!!!!! We set up templates that control 5 zones using the firm keys at the bottom and we use the linking function to control 1 device from all 5 zones. Now this is going to take 20 times longer to do this. This also now means that you can no longer have a volume command under the TV page if you have more than 1 volume to control. Or you can use a connecting block and lose the IR routing it has. The new layout is nothing spectacular, easier in some respects, annoying in others. Personally I think I could have done better with my eyes closed. Philips Belgium are ABSOLUTE MORONS!!!!! I think we will make the step to AMX. The programming time will probably be shorter that PEP2.