Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control

The Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It's home entertainment the way it should be - simple. Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16: 9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4: 3 ratio for basic television programming.

The Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It's home entertainment the way it should be--simple. Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4:3 ratio for basic television programming.   Color display Why settle for another boring remote?  The Harmony 880´s color LCD is both functional and stylish, with user-customizable backgrounds, activity selections, button icons and text. Ample space for up to eight custom activities or controls On-screen battery level indicator shows you charge status Recharging station Never replace batteries again. The Harmony 880 includes a sleek docking station that keeps the remote fully charged. Your family will always know where to put the remote—and you´ll always know where to find it!   Lithium-ion battery provides up to a one-week charge under normal use The horizontal docking station allows remote to be used while charging Award-winning Logitech Industrial Design High-end systems deserve a high-end remote.  Designed with brushed chrome and charcoal accents, a color LCD display and a low-profile recharging station, the Harmony® 880 Remote will match your most advanced audio-video components perfectly.  Logitech has won a total of eight Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the past two years, including five of Japan´s prestigious 2004 Good Design Awards. This experience helped us design the Harmony 880.  Featuring a comfort grip shape and a centered directional pad, it fits easily in your hand and naturally guides you to the most frequently used controls.  Even the buttons are sculpted, to help you locate them by feel not sight.  Patented Smart State Technology® Smart State Technology allows the Harmony remote to completely control an entertainment system by knowing how to control each separate component while tracking the current state of up to 15 devices simultaneously. Easy to set-up Easy to use Easy to get help Never out of date Package Contents Harmony® 880 remote control Recharging Station AC adapter USB cable Lithium-ion battery Installation CD Installation guide System Requirements IBM® compatible PC Windows® 98, 2000, Me, XP USB port CD-ROM drive Internet access Macintosh® Macintosh® OS X 10.2 or later USB port CD-ROM drive Internet access

The 2nd remote worked great right out of the box. I just entered my components into the harmony software and it did the rest. The first remote i got the volume up and channel down didn't work. Harmony sent me a new remote and everything was taken care of.

good looking remote , easy to used I can add as many remote as I want to I bought a karaoke DVD player in Vietnam , I can't find a replacement remote control untill I found Harmony remote it work very very good Thanks Harmony

This is my second Harmony 880. The first one worked for over three years, but finally the buttons stopped responding. This second remote has a much better button feel than the first, so hopefully it will last longer. If you only have a television and a cable/satellite box, then you probably don't need this. But if your system is even slightly more complex than that, get this remote. Setup is a breeze, and it will allow you to get the most out of your system.

First the good: the remote works well, and is very versatile. It can learn any IR device you have, and the online database of ready to go remotes is huge, so if you have lost your old remote, it is probably in the database for you. The form factor is easy to hold and press the buttons with one hand. The keys are back lit, and the full color screen is easy to read. It's rechargeable, and the remote cradle helps you keep track of where you left the remote! Now the less than good: A) The remote does not sit solidly in its cradle - you have to wiggle it to make sure it charges. B) The setup software leaves much to be desired: 1) You cannot reorder the devices list - it is created in the order you create devices, and that is the order they appear on the remote. If you have more than 8 devices, then some will be on a second page on the remote screen - while it would be preferable to have certain "hot" devices on that main screen. 2) The database if full of commands that don't exist, and that end up on your list of commands for you to delete - and deleting commands, and moving commands around is tedious - in some cases there are 10 pages of "additional commands" on the remote to page through - and to delete them and reorder these commands is simply annoying. 3) When you try to create your own device, the software will push a device template on you that may or may not work well. 4) You cannot set "evergreen" commands. For instance, the volume +- should be work the receiver volume REGARDLESS what device is active. You can only make this happen as an "activity", and have to individually program it for each activity. 5) In general, the software is a bit clumsy to use - it's a Java based app, and therefore does not use the drag and drop functionality of the operating system (Windoze or Mac) - and leaves much to be desired. A well designed application would allow for drag and drop command arrangement, setting evergreen keys (such as making volume and mute affect the receiver at all times), Assigning the order of devices both on the main device menu, and while a specific activity was active. A

Pros: - Device works as advertised when you first get it. - Programmability is straightforward- supporting both PC and Mac. - Device definitely does simplify complex AV control. Cons: - After a year of use some of the buttons began to lose contact (channel up and down). I started reprogramming a different set of buttons to do the same action. Also some of the number keys start to lose contact as well. - It does not appear to be able to properly recharge now- not entirely sure if it's because of the tiny recharging contacts or some internal circuit malfunction.