Sony RMVL610N Remote Commander with 3 Color Back Plates - Neutral Pack (Black)

Sony RMVL610N Remote Commander with 3 Color Back Plates - Neutral Pack (Black)
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Category: CE
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Manufacturer: Sony
Model: RMVL610N
Color: Black
Product features:

Stylish home decore friendly remote
3 Nuetral Colored back plates included
Controls up to 8 AV compatible components with buttons for: TV/DVD/SAT/CBL/VCR/CD/TAPE/AMP
Easy operation of on-screen menu for most DVDs and VCRs
Comfortable ergonomic round back design

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Digital camera Review: A lot going for it for the price, Sony is getting there....
Summary: 4 Stars

This is not the 'perfect' remote, if there is such a thing, but so far with my components , it controls things the way I've always wanted to be able to do, with some caveats. When looking for remotes recently, I found that I actually prefer hard buttons to touch screens with multiple menus meaning multiple touching, lol....This remote has a TON of buttons that FINALLY allowed me to cover every single feature that I wanted to control on my receiver, dvd player, tv and most importantly, dish network satellite dish DVR receiver which past remotes failed woefully to cover even the basic controls of. If necessary, I found that manual button by button programming is a snap to do. I am finally able to use the '10 second' skip forward/backward with it's own dedicated buttons along with seperate buttons for fast forward and rewind, just like the original remote...some functions like the DVR button aren't labled as such on the Sony, so you have to do a small bit of memorization to remember which A,B,C,D button you've assigned it to, as well as some of the other less used dish DVR functions. The DVR remote has the advantage of grouping certain functions I use frequently, like the 'Info' button near the up/down, left/right arrows , making it easy to grab it and other buttons by feel whereas the Sony I have to look down to find the info button. The layout and feel of the buttons reminds me of an audio receiver from about 10 to 15 years ago, all neatly aligned, which doesn't always allow for 'one thumb, no look' operation. The other advantage my original dish remote has, is the contoured buttons are very RUGGED and ergonomic feeling in your hands, definitely well suited for daily, repeated use. The Sony on the other hand, is rather delicate and of course the trade off of having this many programmable buttons , is they are small. They do respond well however. I would DEFINITELY prefer larger buttons for the functions I use the most daily, such as a DVR button, guide , menu and exit buttons. Maybe Sony could take a look at dish network's 'hand friendly' 722p DVR remote for their future incarnations! That said, it feels comfortable in my hand and has the slick feature of lying face down on the coffee table, giving it the sleek 'no buttons' look. Probably the thing I was happiest about , was the macro function. Past remotes macro's never quite worked as I hoped. This Sony handled the two macros I have so far with ease...1 for turning the TV and satellite receiver on/off and another for watching DVD's that turns on the tv, DVD player (and opens the player drawer), and turns on the receiver and sets it to DVD input. The one thing I still need to tweak, is specifying the TV input to S video, for my ancient DVD player. It stays on whatever the last thing it was set to, which is also the small caveat of trying to use '1 button' macros sometimes...as an example of my 1st macro to turn the tv/satellite dish on/off, if the satellite dish happened to be turned on when I press the macro, it's not smart enough to know it's already on, and works in reverse by turning it off. This is true across the board, whatever on/off state any device is in, pressing the macro button will simply flip it to the other state...handy when EVERYTHING is either on or off, but not so much when they're mixed on and off. Not a big deal however. Lighted buttons would have been nice...it's not easy to navigate in near dark for watching a movie, but that would probably mean a bit more $$...I'd pay it! One last quirk, the volume control on the Sony doesn't smoothly and quickly turn the volume UP/DOWN, it seems to 'time out', requiring pushing the button multiple times to get the volume set, I've since read this might be a quirk of the Samsung TV using universal remotes. Overall, for $22 I'm pretty happy with it, but would gladly pay a few extra dollars for lighted controls , with the heaviest 'daily use' buttons made bigger and beefier.

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Summary of Sony RMVL610N Remote Commander with 3 Color Back Plates - Neutral Pack (Black)

Stylish and home decore friendly Remote Commander with Learning function. Different colored back plates to swap out to match your decore. Able to control 8 components in one, various types of components can be controlled with preset codes + learning. With System Control functions (macros) it achieves higher usability.

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