Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control (Black)

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

Excellent product! Easy to set up with the software and online program. Had everything running in 1/2 hour to my suprise. I am 66 years old and not the most computer literate person in the world. Did have a few small problems but the help menue built into the remote resolved all of these. A bit pricey but well worth the cost.

I got this in November and when it arrived I set it up right away. It was very easy to set up although you must know the model and brand of each item before you can set it up. The set up is done using your computer and it is very simple. I do recommend before buying this item that you go to logitec's website and use their compatibility tool to make sure your equipment will work with it. I was able to hook it up with my TV, Surround Sound system, Comcast Cable DVR, and my Xbox. They do not however work with the PS3. The only problem I have come across is the signal that goes to the Xbox not only navigates me threw the Xbox but causes my computer to do things. I didn't notice until I was typing up a paper the other day and my boyfriend was putting a movie on the Xbox. I lost a few sentences as I watched in shock thinking at first that my computer had been hijacked or something. Other than that it's great having just one remote to run everything. If your thinking of getting it DO. You'll love it too.

THIS IS REAL NICE TO HAVE WHEN DEALING WITH 3 OR MORE REMOTES, SET-UP FOR ME IS A WORK IN PROGRESS THAT I NEED TO KEEP CHANGING AND ADJUSTING UNTILL I GET IT PERFECT. PROS: *MANY OPTIONS AND WAYS TO SET IT UP *MANY DEVICES WILL WORK WITH IT CONS: *NEEDS A LOT OF SET-UP TIME IF YOUR A PICKY PERSON

Logitech really missed the mark here. What a bunch of knuckle draggers they must have had working on this. Just about anything that could be badly done when designing a remote was done here. The little screen uses fonts which are blurry at the resolution the screen displays. The icons on the screen interfere with readability of the text to make it almost illegible. The numeric buttons are too tightly packed to be able to effectively use them in the dark. The layout of the buttons requires that you shift your grip up and down the remote for related functions, such as displaying a channel guide, paging through it, viewing info on an item, and making a selection. The charging station requires that the remote sit so precisely in position that it seems just a gentle breeze could cause a shift and stop the charging. And the build quality--at least that of my remote--is very bad. The rocker button in the center of the remote requires much more force pushing on the right side of it than the left. The numeric keys down the left side of the remote take so much pressure to work them that it is difficult to not press more than one at a time. Finally, although the software is very intelligent about a great many devices and their interactions in a systematic way, it requires that you create a user account on Logitech's web site to program the remote. It was no trouble to enter fake credentials and a junk email address but still, come on, a user account? All in all, Logitech did a horrible job with this remote. There's not much else about it that could have been poorer.

I set up the remote today and so far it works wonderful. Set up took about ten minutes! Amazing.....I bought this remote not because it can control up to 15 devices, but because it has a rechargable battery. I only control four devices.