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So far the first impression is a good one, but it needs to keep that positive balance now as we take a look at the remote and in the next step actually power up the player and dig around.

There are a few things that immediately come to mind when holding and looking at the remote. It is small, has this plastic “cheapish” feel that does not match the player's packaging (again, as is often the case), and at first glance has a weird layout where numerical buttons are swapped with the operational buttons.

Somehow it is more fluent when the operational buttons are placed below the arrow pad in the centre. You can test that for yourself right now. Take any remote and enter some numbers. Then enter some commands like play, stop, pause… Get my point? No? Oh well…

The remote has no backlight or any form of fluorescent buttons for ease of operation in our darkened cinema rooms, but I guess the real cinema freak will have a universal remote.

At the bottom of the remote is some unused space, which is weird to see nowadays when remotes can‟t have enough buttons and shortcuts to features. Our curiosity is however, woken up by some “new” labels that are new to us: BGM, Sort, iMedia… We find out what these do later...

The package and the player

Initial setup