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Tabletop Control: 7.5" L x 5.2" W x 3" H (19 cm x 13.3 cm x 7.5 cm) HT-MSU: 10.5" L x 6" W x 1" H (26.7 cm x 15 cm x 2.6 cm) Call me old-school, but I still like a hard-button remote control.

Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...