Logitech Harmony 659 Advanced Universal Remote Control - Refurbished by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech Harmony 659 Advanced Universal Remote Control - Refurbished
Digital camera Review: Good Remote, Great Price.
Summary: 5 Stars
The only difference between this and the 670 are the button placement. Big deal! For almost a $100 difference I can deal with the DVD control buttons at the bottom.Digital camera Review: Good deal!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been pleased with this purchase. There was a little bit of a learning curve, and I had trouble loading in my DVR information until I realized that they refer to it as a PVR. I still have all of the original remotes laying around because I can't get my wife to switch to the Harmony remote. Higher-end remotes might have the skip ">/" button, which would have been nice with both my DVR and DVD. Fairly intuitive, and I have been very pleased!Digital camera Review: Good features with a list of shortcomings
Summary: 3 Stars
The Harmony remote's activity model works really well. However, this particular remote has the following shortcomings:
- Lack of enough hardware buttons for media playback control
- Slow response for button press, about 0.5 second delay
- Poor button layout
- Back light button in the worse location
Digital camera Review: Good one to have
Summary: 5 Stars
Was looking like a new one though it said it was refurbished. buttons are little hard but functionality of the remote is great. easy to program the remote through the software installed on laptop.Digital camera Review: Good remote, not for XBox 360.
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this remote to replace the four very bulky remotes in my new home theater setup. Setting it up to watch a DVD (Toshiba HD-A2, Onkyo TX-SR605) or play XBox 360 was cake. The software is somewhat painful to work with, but you can at least get around. I then spent an additional 2 hours last night attempting to get the remote to start media center on my XBox 360. When I was finally able to get it to start media center, none of the other functions on the remote would work in media center so it was useless.
I also tried to get the remote to 'learn' every function of the XBox media center remote. I had the two remotes locked in a mating ritual type dance for 10 minutes, pressing button after button as I was prompted. Surely this would work. In the end, the software said that it seemed to be a lot like the Microsoft Ultimate TV PVR and did some magic. Again, nothing worked. The remote has basically all of the appropriate buttons to run Media Center through the XBox, but all my tweaking had no effect.
Would I buy this remote again? Given my hardware I most definitely would not. Would I buy it for my mother? Absolutely. As I said, setup for my dvd player was a breeze. This thing even turned on my projector (Mitsubishi HD1000U), which is above and behind my sitting position. I can't even do that without special pointing with the real projector remote.