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Home Theater: Anatomy of 6 Remote Controls, by Steven Castle – Electronic House Info and Answers
October 14th, 2009
Paul B
Very cool article by Steven Castle of Electronic House, explaining the features and their importance when choosing a universal remote control. Enjoy.
One of the most important decisions you can make when buying a whole-house music system, home control system, or home theater system is choosing the remote control. It’s the thing you use to communicate with all that equipment. And it better work…
via Home Theater: Anatomy of 6 Remote Controls, by Steven Castle – Electronic House Info and Answers.
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Streamline Home Theaters
January 28th, 2010 at 18:30
I personally use the harmony remote and think it works great! Most computer literate people can program the Harmony via a PC or Mac and unlike similar remotes, you don’t need to hire a pro to get everything up and running.
JimBo
February 3rd, 2010 at 19:14
Harmony remotes are not so inexpensive way to consolidate all your remote controls, but on can not say that they are truly universal. I have worked with and owned about 5 different Harmony remotes, from more basic like 680, all the way to 890PRO, and none have lasted for more than a year, either a charging contact or the battery always went out, and the remotes never did what they were supposed to. Today I own an MX900 from Universal Remote Control, and I couldn’t be happier. After I bought it, I did some basic setup myself, it worked great. But then I had the system installed by UWS, and the guys reprogrammed my remote, it now is simply amazing. Single click and the system does exactly what it should – every time.