News - Logitech launches Harmony 900 universal remote

[HEXUS]

One remote to rule them all?

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[this_is_gav]

Yeah! I want a remote that costs more than my TV!

[TheAnimus]

Start having proper adapters to control other things such as lamps, power off at wall (energy saving!) and we shall talk.

£350 for that how it is now, i would rather build my own, with a few PICs and some mobile phone LCDs.

[simonf7]

Wonder if we'll get a revised One with them nice coloured buttons?

[greenalien]

I own - and like - a Harmony One. I only paid £79.95 for it, and there's no way I'd fork out more just for a remote control. Yes, it would have been nice if they'd remembered the 4 coloured buttons, but they have put them as 'soft' buttons instead which is nearly as good.
Of course, the H1 doesn't have RF, but I don't see that as being worth an extra £270!

[Anastie]

I own a 555 and the user interface is excellent. Not as good as the harmony one but in my opinion the saving was worth it.
Great device.

[shaithis]

I have a Harmony (fairly old one but does the job) that I begrudgingly paid about £65 a few years ago.....although I've come to love it.

Paying £350+ for a remote is something else though, almost bought the touch screen one a few times but just couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a remote.

IMO, it's about time the industry came up with a standard for remotes so that they were all more inter-changable.

[Bob Crabtree]

I popped out yesterday to Tesco to buy a cheapo (sub-£10) replacement for the main TV handset.

The original had gone AWOL (I suspect it fell into a bin near one of the sofas and the bin got emptied*).

The TV set is pretty old - I bought it at a time when there was little HD being broadcast and I thought plasmas and LCDs were still massively over-priced - so the supplied handset also wasn't very fancy.

Consequently, a cheapo replacement was a viable option and I wasn't fussed about having to pay out for it.

But I reckon I'd feel rather differently if someone misplaced a £350 handset - or poured coffee over it. **

* Why people don't root around in bins looking for IR handsets before emptying them, I simply don't know.

;-)

** If you do have such an accident with your expensive handset, do NOT just throw it away! Pull the batteries out asap and get some clean water into, then take it apart, wash it properly and dry it out completely. Take care, though, cos some handsets have a button cell in there, as well, as the main AA or AAA batteries - and that really ought to come out before giving the handset a good bath!

Cheers

Bob