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What's the chances of this Let me explain :

Here’s the thing,
Just purchased an Arcam DV 27-A to go with my Krell Showcase Processor and Showcase 7 Channel Amp.
When I’m in the set up channel of the Arcam DVD player and press the cursor key it switches the Krell processor to a different input and I loose the screen on the monitor, Only way to get back the picture is to switch between another input then back to DVD on the processor.

Called Arcam to day “Very nice and polite” was advised that there remote frequency is the same as the Krell frequency and were a wear of the problem and apologized and said there wasn’t anything they could.

Called Krell was advised that they didn’t know about the problem with Arcam components BUT have heard of other brand of components doing the same.
Then the service guy just stars going on about I should have bought a Krell standard DVD player instead of the Arcam.

“Yeah what ever”

Well now I’m looking at getting a Philips ProntoPro TSU6000 remote and using the RF adapter with it.

Will this fix my problem and is there anybody that is controlling Krell and Arcam components with this or any other RF remote?

Thanks for the advice and ideas

Carl
spazzbecker

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edesilva
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Carl-

It won't work. If you want the IR control of both the Arcam and the Krell, you need to be able to generate different IR signals going into each. You can get little individual emitters to stick on each component, but the pronto is still going to cause each of the emitters to emit the same IR codes at the same time. That is what prpixel is talking about--you need to be able to individually address each IR emitter. The pronto won't do that.
edesilva
768 posts
 
OK Spazz, you fixed your problem, that is great. But, prpixel is *still* right. You simply misdescribed the problem. You were the one who said Arcam said nothing can be done. Something can be done--they don't have to use the same codes. This should have been a no brainer for their customer service, so I'm not real impressed with Arcam's customer help.

What your dealer told you may be right. There are different IR code schemes, and some of them use a device code that precedes the command code for precisely this reason. Bottom line, however, is that the codes coming out of the IR emitter are now different.
edesilva
768 posts
 
Programming a pronto can be nit-picky and time consuming, but its not all *that* hard... If you want hard, try debugging a 10" airpanel using 802.11b to communicate with a remote computer running Cinemar's MainLobby, which talks to a Slink-E through a serial port server over a ethernet network. Getting IR codes to work for the Slink-E is an exercise in beating your head against a wall.
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