In my theater I'm controlling a Denon AVR-5308CI receiver, an Oppo BDP-103 DVD player, a DISH Hopper with Sling, an Xbox 360 and an Epson Pro Cinema 6010UB projector. The many setup screens of the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote You connect the hub wirelessly to your home network, assign your devices, create your activities, download that info to the remote via USB, test it all out, and it's ready to go. Similar to Netflix streaming, it uses the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in so it will only work on browsers like Safari and Internet Explorer. The capacitance touch screen of the Logitech Ultimate Remote lets you swipe, and it also has Haptic feedback I could have been up and running in far less time, but I'm pretty particular about how I want my theater room to respond to commands. But let me back up, because it only took me about an hour to configure everything just the way I wanted it. With the Harmony Ultimate, I'm back to pressing a single button to activate everything I need. To get me up and running I had rigged an IR receiver and transmitter and was using all of my individual remotes as needed. See, my gear is remotely located in a closet, so a good control system is pretty important to me. Bottom line is that, while I can't complain too much, I was "slumming it" in the area of remote controls. Now, I lost my remote control system in a lightning storm, along with just about anything that used Ethernet or HDMI.It was a mess. You get this beautifully-shaped device, but it also has a new 2.4" color touch screen that lets you press and swipe.and it has vibrating haptic feedback for the buttons, so you know your command was recognized. This new WiFi-meets-cloud-based software is their best yet, and it's only fitting that the company revamped its remotes as well to bring them up to speed with the expectations of our smart-phone-toting society. Reliable? Not so much back then, but then Logitech added RF capabilities and IR repeaters, and things got much better. Then you tell it what inputs you use for what, and you're off to the races. You just added your devices and set up activities based on the gear you use. They controlled everything, and they did it without you having to program every single button. But the strength of the Harmony brand of remotes was always the extensive database of AV equipment. Harmony busted onto the scene several years ago and was bought up by Logitech who then advanced the ergonomic design of the products and made them look a lot cooler. This is the Logitech Harmony Ultimate and the Harmony Smart Control. With a few minor exceptions, there hasn't been much movement in the residential remote control market. We haven't reviewed a remote control in quite a while, and there's a good reason for that.
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