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| Topic: | Crestron vs. ProntoPRO This thread has 17 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday April 2, 2003 at 16:24 |
Emir Founding Member |
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Can anybody explain main differences between Crestron remotes and ProntoPRO, please? (Price aside of course)
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday April 2, 2003 at 16:29 |
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Whew. Tall order.
How about an analogy? Pronto Pro is to Crestron as a color Palm Pilot with all the bells and whistles is to the computer network I have at work with scanners, printers, DSL with a firewall, tape backup and RAID 5 drive.
I'll leave it to the rest to give you the specifics.
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday April 2, 2003 at 20:52 |
DavidatAVX Founding Member |
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Record player with a missing needle and a scrached record to a DTS CD.
Dave
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday April 2, 2003 at 21:30 |
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Pamela Lee compared to Bin Laden... Umm no really. Its apples to oranges. CRESTRON is realy not just a REMOTE, but a AUTOMATION and INTEGRATION CONTROL SYSTEM. If you install CRESTRON to JUST control your TV and VCR than you are using it to 20% of what it has been designed for. Complete RS232 comunication with Feedback on some remotes. (the remote will display the chanel you are on, the current time, the temp of the room, what lights are on or off, what video source you are on, what track is in the cd player, what time stamp the mp3 you are listening to is currently at, ect... ect.. ect..) Besides being RF based (which i think you can get the PRO is as well) It just goes on, and on, and on, and on.... www.crestron.comoh ya www.integrationpros.com
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| Post 5 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 07:46 |
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Brijaws has hit upon the essential difference, the Crestron controllers and the associated software.
After that is the sophistication and flexibility of the control interfaces which includes touchpanels, hard button remotes, hard button panels, extremely reliable RF communication between wireless remotes and the controller not to mention the ability to run your system over the internet. Just the tip of the iceberg.
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| Post 6 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 08:24 |
vts1134 Founding Member |
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One more difference, Phillips pronto is easy to get through a distributor and Crestron is (too) particular about who gets their product.
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| Post 7 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 09:11 |
GlennS Long Time Member |
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Emir, The ProntoPro is for small-medium hometheaters. The Crestron system is for whole house control. That is the basic difference between the two. Crestron even has their own version of the ProntoPro, but it is used as a part of a Crestron system. What I mean is that the ProntoPro is a remote control and the Crestron is a system of remote controls. Talk to you soon, Glenn Sheridan Pronto Programming prontoprograming@aol.com
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| Post 8 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 17:48 |
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On 04/03/03 09:11, GlennS said...
Emir,
The ProntoPro is for small-medium hometheaters.
The Crestron system is for whole house control. Not at all. Crestron is used ALL the time in single room systems.
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| Post 9 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 18:00 |
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I don't have time to write about the technical differences so I'll just offer my opinion on the operational ones. I *personally* don't enjoy operating a system with a Pronto and I do with a Crestron. The larger surface area of a Crestron screen makes all the difference in the world. The ST-1700 and STX-1700 are fantastic touchscreens.
This message was edited by QQQ on 04/03/03 19:43.
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| Post 10 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 18:27 |
GlennS Long Time Member |
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QQQ, I didn't mean to infer that the Crestron cannot be used in a single room situation. What I mean was that the Crestron is not as limited as the Pronto is. The Crestron can control the whole house, where a Pronto is pretty much limited to the Home Theater. I think what Emir is looking for is which control method his firm could benefit from in their installations. Talk to you soon, Glenn Sheridan Pronto Programming prontoprograming@aol.com
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| Post 11 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 19:42 |
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My misunderstanding Glen. I thought you were suggesting that the only reason to use Crestron was if you needed whole house control.
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| Post 12 made on Thursday April 3, 2003 at 20:56 |
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You PAY alot of EXTRA cash if you are using a CRESTON ST1700 (and definitly STX) for your Living Room Controler. Its big money to spend (not only in hardware, but in programing costs) is you are using IR based equipment only.
Maybe if you had some RS232 contrable devices. Or wanted to do Lighting, or Just liked the reliability of an RF controller - than you might be able to justify the cost differnce.
Dont get me wrong either - I install ST1700PAKs all day long... Whoo hoo...!
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| OP | Post 13 made on Friday April 4, 2003 at 05:44 |
Emir Founding Member |
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Whoo hoo...! It looks like I'm dancing with the wolfs.
But seriously, thanks a lot you Pro's.
Special thanks to you GlennS, point is exactly what you said: "I think what Emir is looking for is which control method his firm could benefit from in their installations."
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| Post 14 made on Friday April 4, 2003 at 11:11 |
This really is a question that should never have been asked. You are not comparing apples to apples. A better comparison would have been Crestron vs. Elan or Crestron vs. VIP Systems....
Or if we wanted to talk theater room remotes then we could have compared Marantz RC9200/RC5200 vs. Prontos or any of the other programmable remotes out there. Maybe even a One for All remote vs. a Pronto....
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| Post 15 made on Friday April 4, 2003 at 11:20 |
GlennS Long Time Member |
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Cac3,
I wouldn't say that this is a question that shouldn't have been asked. What Emir was looking for was if his installs are large enough to warrent a Crestron system or if that would be overkill for his clients. And Prontos can be in the same league as a Crestron system for some users. I have programmed Prontos to be used along side Crestron systems because the Wife was not comfortable with the Crestron.
Talk to you soon,
Glenn Sheridan
Pronto Programming
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