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Harmony 659
#126238 01/31/06 06:15 PM
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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


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#126239 01/31/06 06:39 PM
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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


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#126240 01/31/06 07:03 PM
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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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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


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#126243 01/31/06 08:37 PM
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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


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#126244 01/31/06 08:51 PM
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Here is a list of remotes from Harmony.


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#126245 01/31/06 08:57 PM
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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.
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#126246 01/31/06 09:03 PM
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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.


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#126247 01/31/06 09:05 PM
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Thanks Home
I'll check there first.
oz


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