CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000 - Gizmodo Comments

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

Clicker — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:49:53 EDT

As a fan of harmony remotes, having used them since the orginal EZ Zapper Harmony days. I now have 2 680s and an 880. Love them all. I played with the old Prontos (which cost much more than $500) and these remotes are what those never really could be. Thanks for the review. I could use less baudy language, it's too adolescent for a product this good.

Clicker

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

rbarrett_2 — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:13:22 EDT

Agreed, defStef. I have 2 880s, both of them have to be placed with precision on the contacts otherwise no charg action. Even worse, sometimes when on the cradle, it beeps over and over, all night long, as the contacts are seemingly exactly between touching and not touching. REALLY bad, Logitech.

rbarrett_2

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

deenster — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:54:35 EDT

"Then you install the software and "log in" to the remote, similar to how to you log into routers."

You don't actually log into the remote, but you log into the harmony website and do all your configuration online and it gets saved on the harmony server. You then transfer the packaged settings to your remote which gets downloaded from the server to your computer then into your remote.

deenster

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

stulaloyd — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:03:42 EDT

Try taking a pencil eraser to the conductors. Once a week eraser scrubbing works for mine.

stulaloyd

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

defStef — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:16:47 EDT

Lets hope it has a better charging function than the 880/890 piece-of-crap cradle. My 880 cradle wont charge the battery...I even went out and bought a new battery and no luck. Relying on gravity and alignment of three oval shaped conductors to charge is one of the worst design ideas I have ever seen.

defStef

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

Nato! — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:33:09 EDT

Wow! I know this is a tech blog and I know similar products go for much more, but I could by a nice tv for that much $$$. Did I just out myself? I feel a bit dirty...

Nato!

CEDIA 2006: Hands-On With the Logitech Harmony 1000

Monty — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:18:28 EDT

Keep in mind that remotes like this already on the market are usually professionally installed (because they take a professional to program them) and they cost two grand and go way up from there.

I know five hundred smackers is big money for the home market, but it is amazingly inexpensive compared to the similar products on the market. I would not be able to afford one, myself, but I can see a big home theatre junky loving this.

Monty