Although you may have begun to think that it would never arrive, I’m pleased to finally announce our next contest! Thanks to our friends over at AVSmarts.com, we’ve got five fantastic prizes for you this month. You could win a $300 gift certificate good towards anything at AVSmarts.com, a Home Theater Master MX-600 remote control, a Philips ProntoNEO TSU500 touchscreen remote control, a Harman/Kardon DAL-150 digital audio transcoder, or a Philips PROmote web-programmable remote control!

So what are you waiting for? Enter today!

File area updates!
After many a late night working at a keyboard, our file areas have finally been caught up-to-date with recent submissions. Our entire file database now encompasses over 9,900 entries excluding discrete codes – that’s 1,100 more since my previous report in October!

Philips Pronto NG & ProntoPro NG
First up is quickest growing file area on the site, covering the new Philips Pronto NG and color Philips ProntoPro NG remote controls. This includes model numbers TSU3000, TSU7000, RU950 and RU980. Updated system layouts are available from:

Dennis Gipe Gerald Maxwell Jukka Forss Karl Harrison Jon Linville Louis F. Latilla Ludovic Hauduc Manfred Keller Matt Bennett Michael Burwen

Nick Allen Nick Satullo Paul Gere Peter A. Kemmer Rick Lohr Rob Grim Rob Hix Roddy McGavin Will Hopkins Willy Nanita

Also new is the entry viewing section for our Philips ProntoPro NG design contest, where you’ll find 34 full-color completely customized layouts available for download. Check it out and vote for your favorite designs!

Other new files include a collection of tiny TV logos from Rocky Nelson, Australian TV logos from Peter Fullerton, normal TV logos from Mike Burwen, plus dozens of new individual component PCF files. If you'd like to share a file with the Pronto NG community, click here!

[ Talk about the Philips Pronto NG! ]

Philips Pronto
Next is the classic Philips Pronto area, covering the TS-1000, TSU2000, TSU6000, RU890, RU940, RU970, RC5000, RC5000i, RC5200, RC9200, RAV-2000 and CHAD. Pronto NG owners, don’t forget that you can import CCF files too! New or updated color or black and white system CCFs are now available by:

Adriaan van Nijendaal Albert Mizrahi Andy Watkinson Barry Peters Brent Southam Bruce Hartley Chris Horka Colin Wells David DelMonte Don Cole Eric ten Barge Frédéric Thomas Geoff Smith Gil Semo

James Akins Jason Jones Jérôme Mille Jerry Horta Jonathan R. Schalliol Lucien van Os Mark Oswell Martial Bouvard Michael Clark “Michel” Ralph Erps Simon Polinelli Tom Keelin Tom Skinner

In other files, you’ll find a television HD logo collection, a new version 4.0 of John Fine's MakeHex IR hex creation program, and a boatload of new individual component files. If you're interested in uploading a file to our Pronto archive, click here!

[ Talk about the Philips Pronto! ]

Philips iPronto
Our newest file area is for the Philips iPronto TSi6400 remote control, and files are starting to come in. You'll find new system ICF files by:

Amr Abouel Seoud Chris Rostie Chuck Cushing “Cinergi” Jan Gehring Kees van der Meer

Kevin Carrigan Neil Watts Phil Hodey Richard Glaeser Stephen Coates

If you'd like to upload a Philips iPronto file, click here.

[ Talk about the Philips iPronto! ]

Other file areas...
All other file areas on Remote Central have also been caught up-to-date. In the Philips ProntoNEO and Marantz RC3200 section are 12 brand new system NCF files, plus a large number of component files. To share your ProntoNEO files with the community, click here.

[ Talk about the Philips ProntoNEO! ]

The Home Theater Master MX-700 & MX-800 file area has 15 brand new system layouts. To upload a MX-700 or MX-800 file, click here.

[ Talk about the MX-500, MX-700 & MX-800! ]

For a complete list of our file areas, including sections for the Home Theater Master MX-500, Home Theater Master MX-1000, RTI TheaterTouch T2, plus a new Miscellaneous area, click here.