Source: DIGITAL HOME News Service
Publication date: August 28, 2008
By DIGITAL HOME Staff
Universal Remote Control (URC) has begun shipping its new Complete Control MX-880, its latest wand-style PC-programmable remote control for the custom installation market. The rechargeable MX-880, which features an attractive two-inch color LCD display, is positioned as an easy $50 upgrade to installers who currently spec the Complete Control MX-900, with its black and white display, company officials said.
URS representatives said many installers use the $449 MX-900 to customize user interfaces for clients via URC's OpenArchitecture MX-900 PC Editor. OpenArchitecture enables quick creation of custom, multiple-room, multiple-user interfaces via MX-900 Editor's text-only programming interface. With the $499 MX-880, dealers now can program color interfaces by utilizing the same text-only MX-900 programming interface they already use.
Custom installers can provide color at an affordable price with URC's fast, installer-friendly MX-880 Editor software. The same files an installer programmed for an MX-900-or for the recently-announced KP-900 Wireless Keypad-can be imported and used on an MX-880; likewise, MX-880 files can be imported to an MX-900 or KP-900.
"The MX-900 has been a real workhorse for many of our dealers over the years, and it will remain available," said Jon Sienkiewicz, director of marketing for URC.
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