Logitech Harmony 1000 Advanced Universal Remote Universal remote control

Advantages: One touch to control all your components, easy to program, gets rid of multiple remotes
Disadvantages: The touch screen can be sensitive

...One touch is all it takes to make the remote do what you want it to do. Programming is very easy and doesn't take long at all. If you run into problems, Logitech is very good at helping you solve any problems that you may have. ... Read review

Advantages easy to use, beautiful to look at, full of features
Disadvantages Not always perfect, a bit pricey

...in this way, can be manually input. The remote is very much a learning remote control. It does take a while to intially setup and I couldnt say its flawless, but i certainly wouldn't go back to 5 seperate remotes. Its easy to use and pleasant on the eye. Here's a big selling point for most men. Its simple enough that even my wife could get to grips with it. Not to be sexist or anything, but she had far more trouble with the seperate remotes than she does with this single unit. In the end, Logitech's harmony 1000, although pricey and perhaps a luxury, is worth every penny and is a worthy addition to any home cinema setup. *I should mention, it DOESNT work with Sony's Playstation 3, as that console uses bluetooth for its blu ray remote, rather than infa red. But that's sony's fault!... Read review

Advantages Looks cool, apparently reasonalby priced, does the job (nearly)
Disadvantages Set-up time, not for the faint-hearted

...later it had downloaded the relevant bits, checked where we'd mis-labelled something, and spent some time blank-screen communicating with the internet. All OK in the end and it kept asking us irritating "Is this what you want?" questions, but we got over that. Good stuff vodka. So you can now use it to operate all the AV previously purchased by techy-boffin (TB) (if they only had a crystal set, they wouldn't need any of it LOL). Well the one's it does operate - great, but even TB (who has a Physics degree) couldn't get it to work with Dad's Bose speakers. Apparently the Logitech Harmony don't work with Bose. (??) It was possible to set up advanced custom stuff e.g. setting delay times for the remote commands. (When I work out why you want that I'll let you know.) TB added a custom button to turn the sub woofer on or off and was very... Read review