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Manage up to 8 of your home theater electronics devices with this Logitech Harmony 700 915-000162 universal remote, which features a brilliant color command screen for easy navigation. One-touch activity buttons simplify device selection.
Customer Rating
4
Love this remote
on January 14, 2012
Posted by: utazdevl
from Los Angeles, CA
I have too many remotes. TV, DirecTV, AppleTV, Playstation 3, Wii, Surround Sound and Computer. I kept losing the AppleTV and Computer remotes because they are so small. My wife couldn't figure out which remote to use to get to the various devices.
I have NEVER bought a universal remote i've liked. I would buy one, but after a couple weeks I'd find myself using it for a couple items, but also the original remotes. Eventually I'd stop using the universal all together.
This time, I really did my research and was willing to spend more for the right universal remote. Logitech Harmony seemed to be the best out there. I went with the 700 because of the rechargeable batteries but still didn't cost a fortune because I figured I might end up not using it eventually.
2 Months later, I am using this remote every day for all my devices. It works with everything I own. Some people will complain about the set up (you need to attach to a computer connected to the net) but I love that you basically go online and do everything you want the remote to be programmed to do, then hit "Sync" and it download the information to the remote. It is really smart thinking. The remote has buttons for everything on all of my devices, and you can individually program any buttons you need to be ones you want.
The only reason I am giving this a 4 out of 5 is because of the "activities" function. Activities are sequences of button pushes that are all made into a single button push. For example, if you need to switch your TV input to your BD Player, turn on the BD Player, turn on the surround sound and turn off the DVD player, you can set an "activity" to do all these things in a single button push. It is great in theory, but what seems to happen to me frequently is that one of the button pushes gets "missed", and suddenly, I am on the wrong input, BD Player, Surround Sound on and DVD player off. Then, I have a couple button pushes on the remote to get to the section where I "manually" switch the TV input. When this happens to my wife, she gets totally confused and seemingly randomly pushes buttons, which only causes more issues. Activities are a great idea, but the execution seems a bit lacking.
That said, the "manual" usage of the remote is amazing and the remote otherwise perfect.
What's great about it: Set-Up, multitude of buttons, reasonable price, rechargeable batteries
What's not so great: When an "activity" goes wrong, it goes VERY wrong.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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4
Durability
5
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