Logitech's Harmony 890

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.denguru.com/2007/01/10/throw_away_all_those_remotes/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www.denguru.com/2007/01/10/throw_away_all_those_remotes/index.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If, like me, you've got a pile of audio-video remote controls and you've not been happy trying to consolidate their functionality in one of those cheapie manually programmable "universal" remotes, Logitech's Harmony 890 just might be what you're looking for. The 890 comes with a combination USB-based battery charger and dock to connect it to your computer. The 890 Windows-based software provides a nice interface for defining your devices (audio-video components) and putting them together in a variety of useful on-off, initialization combinations. The software also links to the Internet where it is able to download up-to-date remote control specs for virtually any AV device you can imagine."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/log890.jpg" /><br /><br />The Harmony is a great line of remotes. I personally have the 676 model which does roughly the same thing, but lacks the color screen, rechargeable batteries, and RF capabilities. Overall, it is a great remote. One problem I have had is that the on-line setup tries to help you a little too much and was not giving me enough flexibility to truly customize it the way I wanted to. From a quick look at this review, it seems they've done some updates to the software, so I might just need to fire it up again and start from scratch.