Harmony 659
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I finally joined the Harmony family yesterday. I must say this was the easiest and most user friendly remote I have ever owned. I have tried the Radio Shack Kamieleon. While not a bad remote it it would eat up a set of batteries in no time. Plus it was a device operated remote, not wife friendly. Next up was a Sony RM-AV3000, man this thing is a pain in the rump to program. No matter what I tried I couldn't get it to operate everything exactly the way I wanted. It had a very low waf when trying to play a DVD. The Sony manual is one of the worst manuals to understand. I couldn't for the life of me get all the commands to work for all the components we have.
I received the Harmony 659 yesterday afternoon and I had it programmed and working in about a half an hour. Before I would still have to have a few remotes handy to do all the things I wanted to do while watching a movie. The Harmony does all I need it to do. I really like how it is activity based, now all the wife has to do is pick an activity and press the button, it can't get much easier than that.
I have two separate systems, one for music and one for H/T, this remote handles all the devices now. Plus I was able to teach it some commands for the cd recorder I have. I must say I am impressed
Rick
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud
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Re: Harmony 659
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I couldn't agree with you more. I've got the 659 and 688, the whole family loves them. Real wife pleasing remotes
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Hmm I may have to check into one of these. My wife hates having 5-6 remotes laying around.
Would they work to operate a Home Theater PC?
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In reply to:
Real wife pleasing remotes
I knew they had a lot of convenient features, but I didn't know they vibrated as well.
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I didn't see that in the activies
Rick
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud
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You boys are cracking me up! I'd steer clear of this one Peter.
On a more serious note, I have been considering one of these as well.
Do you happen to know if this is the latest and greatest model?
thanks for the grins,
oz
"Life is what happens while your busy making other plans" John Lennon
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Here is a list of remotes from Harmony.
Rick
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud
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Thanks Rick,
I guess I was being lazy. It's just that I was at work and didn't want to take the time to google.
you da man
"Life is what happens while your busy making other plans" John Lennon
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You can do much better than the prices listed on the Harmony site. E-bay seems sell alot of these remotes at good prices.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Thanks Home
I'll check there first.
oz
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