the jog dial does work, i'll give it that. it's a nice heavy hunk of aluminum with a good bearing. sadly, it's not useful in Shuttle mode - they went to a lot of bother to build in a solenoid clutch mechanism so that when you put it in Shuttle it actually has physical stops at either end of its travel, but unfortunately that's all it has. since it has no detents, it's really hard to stop at the 1/2 speed or 2x speed notches. it just ends up being this silly uncontrollable mess, and on top of that, it glitches out resolves audio system and makes it produce horrifyingly distorted trash whenever you change speeds.