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

I couldn't agree with you more. I've got the 659 and 688, the whole family loves them. Real wife pleasing remotes

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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I knew they had a lot of convenient features, but I didn't know they vibrated as well.

I didn't see that in the activies

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

Here is a list of remotes from Harmony.

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

You can do much better than the prices listed on the Harmony site. E-bay seems sell alot of these remotes at good prices.

Thanks Home
I'll check there first.
oz

You can do better for sure, I got mine at Newegg. I wanted to stick with an authorized dealer for warranty purposes

Anybody ever use the Harmony 880? I like the look of the the LCD sceen, but I have heard that it dims over time.

I bought one for my brother here. Pretty good prices and they're reputable.

I'm interested in the ease of use factors well (aka - please she who must be pleased). Home Theater Master MX-700 is the one I'm leaning towards, but also looking at the Harmony brand. Audioholics has a great review of the MX-700. Also check out remotecentral.com and surfremotecontrol.com (Help coming from the link police!)

- Rp

Do a Forum Search on MX-700 for Ray3's enthusiastic recommendations.

Link Police

Surfremotecontrol.com

Remotecentral.com