Are all my left handed brothers really that useless? There's nothing mechanical about a remote. If these were scissors, or a pencil, I'd understand. But pushing buttons with my right hand comes just as easy as doing it with my left.
Not only is it missing the basic functionality of real, find-by-feel buttons, but the overall shape is all wrong too. This design is clearly meant to either (A) sit on a table during access or (B) be held by both hands. Ridiculous.
Give me a regularly-shaped remote designed to be held/used in a single hand with real buttons, then let's talk about universality.
@Stikman008: and the gas mileage makes me the envy of the neighborhood. all the kids come chasing me down the street when i come home. but that's mainly cause i need a push to get up the hill i live on.
Call me crazy, but I almost prefer a pile of remotes to my Harmony One. It's a good universal, but I STILL have to occasionally go hunting for buttons deep in on screen menus.
It's a no win situation. Well, until someone releases a remote that functions on thought.
@Aloof: "Call me crazy, but I almost prefer a pile of remotes..."
If you are crazy, then I'm crazy too. I've had a couple of the Harmony Universal Remotes bookmarked in my Amazon "wish list" for at least a couple of years now. And every time I see them in that listing, I go, "Wow, today's the day I should buy one." And then I pause and think, "But...why? I'm more than perfectly happy having a few individual, dedicated remotes sitting on my coffee table, each of which I've long ago memorized the buttons I use."
@Aloof: you're not crazy man. i only got one after i put in the surround sound. the cable box remote didn't control the volume on the receiver and a remote for volume and one for the channels annoyed me to no end. i do, however, keep the pile of remotes on the end table for those random buttons.
@Aloof: You're crazy. Even a cheap Harmony will replace all of your remotes for 99% of your actual home theater usage. Even my wife can control everything without having to ask "How do I get back to the satellite box from here?" When you want to get into the actual settings of a particular component THEN you drag out that component's individual remote for ease of control (if you must.)
@Aloof: It always seems like I always need the one button that's not shown. Like some surround levels button, or a input button...
It's not BAD and obviously I'm still using it, but I'm occasionally frustrated. It's usually when I'm trying to do something wacky like listen to a sports game (being plumbed into the stereo from the cable box) while playing WoW on the TV. Something that I don't have an activity set up for.
@aquaosx: Maybe I am misunderstanding, but this review said the concept of a touchscreen does not really work for a remote - so, how does using an iPhone fix that problem? Or maybe you are just saying that all touchscreen remote controls will be dead, however one could argue that they already are.
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Uh...they make left-handed pencils?
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Give me a regularly-shaped remote designed to be held/used in a single hand with real buttons, then let's talk about universality.
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It's a no win situation. Well, until someone releases a remote that functions on thought.
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If you are crazy, then I'm crazy too. I've had a couple of the Harmony Universal Remotes bookmarked in my Amazon "wish list" for at least a couple of years now. And every time I see them in that listing, I go, "Wow, today's the day I should buy one." And then I pause and think, "But...why? I'm more than perfectly happy having a few individual, dedicated remotes sitting on my coffee table, each of which I've long ago memorized the buttons I use."
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It's not BAD and obviously I'm still using it, but I'm occasionally frustrated. It's usually when I'm trying to do something wacky like listen to a sports game (being plumbed into the stereo from the cable box) while playing WoW on the TV. Something that I don't have an activity set up for.
Ah well, it could be worse, right?
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I want a remote that can access a channel guide and manage my DVR without having to display menus over whatever I'm watching.
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