- Over-priced Under-featured Badly Designed Rip-offSony hs been making remotes for some time, so you think they'd come up with something servicable. But this is just a bad joke:
1 - the STOP BUTTON is between the PLAY and PAUSE buttons, and all three are the same shape and texture -- meaning you often hit it by mistake. Normaly no problem since most DVD Players have a resume function default. Not the PS3 -- it STOPS. It bails out of DVD mode and drops you into the system menu. Then you have to start up the DVD again, click through the start-up commecials on the Blu-Ray, and then find where you were when you first tried to pause it.
2 - No OFF button, so you have to go through the PS3 shut-down process.
3 - No backlight -- for the price they're asking, this device should have a back light, because...
4 - Text is too small, and buttons are often unclear.
It looks and feels like a remote made by gamers, not by people who actually want to watch a movie. Too bad, because the game controller that comes with the PS3 is a more funtional remote than this -- and far more robust. This feels like cheap plastic -- if Sony made their game controller this way, we'd all have XBoxes by now.
I can only infer that Sony had their trainee designers throw this dog together. And a bunch of sycophantic executives as product testers. It should never have been released.
Considering the price tag -- and the price tag of the PS3 you're buying it for -- this is just another of the many examples of Sony gouging the consumer.
Stick with your game-controller and save youself some money.
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