Product Review - Logitech Harmony One Remote

Or more accurately, Big Daddy's New Toy! This thing is the bomb though. He has this set up to run everything in our house that had a remote. Even our old stereo, well, I don't like to think of it as old, but as far as electronics go, its ancient. Logitech says the average family has over 4 remotes, we must be above average, sweet! We had a remote for the TV, the DVR, the DVD player, the Stereo system, which in itself controls several things, the CD player, the Tuner, etc. And if you have a fan with a remote, or your coffee maker on a remote, this thing could control that too.

Of course, I don't get to use it a whole lot. But, when I do, it's nice. When the kids are in school, and dad's at work, I get to play with it. It has a touch screen which is really neat. Makes me feel like I'm watching TV in a Star Trek movie. I know, I'm a little behind the times.

What I do like about it is, you touch "Watch DVR" and it turns the TV AND the DVR on at the same time, or if you want to watch a movie in the DVD player, the old way, I would have to put the DVD in, turn on the TV, turn on the DVD player, then change the TV input to the DVD channel, it required pressing a million buttons, let's just put it that way. Now, I touch "Watch DVD" and it turns it all on, puts it on the right input, and starts the movie, voila!

And it keeps track of what you have on. If you turned the TV on with the remote, it remembers, and then you just press the screen again to turn the TV off. It's like magic. Very sweet.

I didn't handle the setup, that was the "man's job" but since there were no remote shaped holes in the wall or swear words coming from the computer room, and the remote was still in one piece just minutes after he started the setup and we were using it to turn on all our goodies, I assume it all went well.

So, if you're in the market to buy a new remote, you should get this one! It's magic.