Reviews for Learning Remotes

"Well designed Lots of devices covered Easy to set up...Touch screen display can slow things down Expensive for a remote control...If your lounge is home to more entertainment equipment than just a TV and DVD player, it's likely you also have a bunch of remote controls cluttering up the coffee table...You can also create macros to send multiple commands with one press of a button...During our testing it worked fine, although with only six controls able..." read more »

"The remote control hasn't been around long in the overall scheme of life on Earth, but its evolution over the past thirty years has mirrored that of human kind in an eerily similar way...From its humble sonic-click hunter-gatherer-like beginnings, the remote has spread steadily like a virus, multiplying in numbers...It's a problem Logitech aims to solve with its Harmony 1000..." read more »

"The Prestigo SRU8015 features color channel icons with instant access to TV programming...Too many channels can sometimes be a bad thing...Instead of punching in the channel up/down buttons or browsing the electronic channel guide, this little remote provides instant access to your favorite channels, via a 2-inch LCD and white key backlighting..." read more »

"Nice Button Configuration, Nice Features, Easy To Program We only programmed the remote for 2 components, a Sony TV and a Scientific Atlanta cable box...The remote seems to work very well for our needs...Some of the buttons are rather small and have kind of a "squishy" feel to them..." read more »

"Overall, Intrigue Technologies has made significant improvements to the Harmony’s intuitiveness...Users picking up the SST-659 for the first time can be expected to grasp the activity-based concept immediately, while the SST-768 or SST-748 are more likely to require lengthier contemplation and fiddling before their operation becomes clear...Although everything with the Harmony isn’t perfect – and I’ve never seen a remote that could make that claim – the SST-659 represents a significant jump forwards for Intrigue in balancing the best of the activity and device-based worlds...With hard buttons for practically every common function, the SST-659 is also the first Harmony that can truly be called a full-fledged hard buttoned dream...If you’ve liked the idea of the Harmony in the past but just couldn’t stand to part with your separate menu, transport and keypad buttons, the SST-659 offers an intriguing alternative..." read more »

"The wasp-waisted 880 measures 8.1 by 2.3 by 1.3 inches (HWD), weighs 0.4 pounds and includes a 128- by-160-pixel color display bordered by eight contextual buttons whose icons appear on the screen edges...The 880 is built around activities (watch TV or play a DVD, for example) instead of the macros that power users prefer, but the effect is the same: This is one remote that does virtually anything you want...The street price of $250 may seem high if you're used to $49 universal remotes, but keep in mind that the 880's competition really comes from custom-programmable remotes that cost $500 and up..." read more »

"Controls up to 5 different devices, favorites buttons, learning capability, good range...Although it claims to work on Philips electronics out-of-box, I found the factory default settings are good just to turn on/off my Philips LCD TV, switch channels, and turn up/down volumes, then nothing else...Oh well, this remote may be a good product in 1980s..." read more »

"That's where One For All URC8820 Universal Learning Remote comes in...With URC8820, all you need is one remote for all...Supports a large number of devices right out of the box, and is programmable for extra buttons/features...Long after the 10 foot dish was gone, I bought another Cinema 7, but continued using the original until earlier this year -- it saw a good 15+ years of use..." read more »

"Blending technology and convenience, the Prestigo SRU8112 provides direct access buttons to your TV channels as well as big buttons for ease of use...A universal IR code database refers to a library of infrared codes built-in to a particular remote..." read more »