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Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control

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Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control

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A dream comes true! One remote control for your entire home-theater and HDTV system. The Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It´s home entertainment the way it should be?simple. Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4:3 ratio for basic television programming. High-end systems deserve a high-end remote. Designed with brushed chrome and charcoal accents, a color LCD display and a low-profile recharging station, the Harmony 880 Remote will match your most advanced audio-video components perfectly. Logitech has won a total of eight Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the past two years, including five of Japan´s prestigious 2004 Good Design Awards. This experience helped develop the Harmony 880 and its ergonomic design. Featuring a comfort grip shape and a centered directional pad, it fits easily in your hand and naturally guides you to the most frequently used controls. Even the buttons are sculpted, to help you locate them by feel not sight. Smart State Technology allows the Harmony remote to completely control an entertainment system by knowing how to control each separate component while tracking the current state of up to 15 devices simultaneously. Simply press an Activity button, such as "Watch TV" or "Listen to Music," and your Harmony Remote automatically sets up each of the devices required for that activity. Sleek docking station that remote fully charged Programmable with Windows PC or Macintosh computer / USB Cable included 53 top-mounted hard buttons and 8 on-screen activity buttons 2 MB non-volatile flash memory

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Product Details

Product Length:	6.5 inches
Product Width:	10.5 inches
Product Height:	6.5 inches
Product Weight:	1.88 pounds
Package Length:	11.5 inches
Package Width:	7.2 inches
Package Height:	3.4 inches
Package Weight:	1.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 1863 reviews

Features

Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems
Quickly choose a 16:9 or 4:3 ratio depending on the program source
Includes a sleek docking station that keeps the remote fully charged
Color LCD is both functional and stylish, with user-customizable backgrounds, button icons and text
On-screen battery level indicator shows you charge status

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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Good Remote but pray it doesn't break. Jul 28, 2010
Stay away from this remote and all other Harmony remotes. They look great and they work well. Your only challenge will come when it breaks. 880 has a design flaw in the way batteries are charged. Charging terminals get bent, battery contacts break/get corroded. And this is with normal use. When you contact Logitech, you will be simply told to buy a new remote. Who wants to spend hundreds of dollars with the possibility of all that money going to waste?

Bottom line is if you feel comfortable rolling the dice, go for it. As for me, I am done with Logitech and their crappy customer service.

Good, but not Great. Cheaply built and wears that way. Jul 26, 2010
I purchased this remote in February 2007. It has never charged consistently with the base. Sometimes it charges perfectly, sometimes it doesn't charge at all. Have performed all of the recommended actions by Logitech. Nothing changes. Simply not designed or built well. Remote is very customizable and generally works pretty well. It doesn't always turn everything off perfectly. Remote is pretty good in the hand, but not perfect feeling. Buttons are a little clunky. Set-up is easy and helpful. Volume-up button hasn't worked for 8 months. Common problem. Since out of warranty, Logitech offers 50% off an overpriced one from their web store. I would normally look for a new product to replace, but who makes anything near this good?

Works great but doesn't last Jul 24, 2010
I currently own my second Harmony 880. The features are wonderful and as long as it works it's excellent. It does everything I bought it for and is easily adaptable as your TV system components change over time.

However, I have found that the devices don't last as long as they should. In normal use in a house that includes minors, or possibly any house that includes multiple users any of which don't handle the Harmony with kid gloves, I think you may find that after awhile (maybe 6 months, not long for such a costly product), one or more of the buttons on your Harmony 880 will become unresponsive. For example, on my current 880 I can turn the TV sound down, but not up. The top end of the volume switch (volume up) just doesn't work anymore. Which means to get full volume control I have to pull my Sharp remote back out of the drawer. Also, the button that allows me to navigate the onscreen user guide horizontally, enabling me to schedule recordings, no longer navigates to the right: I have to pull out my DVR remote to do that.

Which means the Harmony 880 fails in its essential purpose: to replace all my multiplicity of remotes.

I think I know why. The plastic body of the Harmony 880 is not very stiff: it's pretty compressible under normal hand pressure. As hands put pressure on the device over time, the internal workings start to deform, and eventually something inside loses contact with something else. No other remote I've ever had has had this problem.

The first Harmony 880 I had, I actually took apart myself and put some filler material in there to force the contacts back into contact with each other again, so the thing would charge properly. After a few months my home repairs failed, and I figured I'd had bad luck with a good device and bought another. Unless someone tells me the latest ones are a lot more resistant to such problems, my second is probably my last. Atter all, about $300 and 3 years later, I'm again using multiple remotes (including the 880, most of whose controls still work fine) to make my TV work as it should.

For teh Price - It's the best Remote Jul 23, 2010
Setup is easy if your devices are already programed into Logitech's software. Once setup it works pretty well and will do almost everything that your factory remotes do. Plus the battery life is great.

Harmony 880 Review Jul 19, 2010
I've been using this remote for about a year and a half now. It has some great features that I can't live without, however the craftsmanship and ergonomics of this thing really ruin it for me.

First, the good... I love how this Harmony switches on and off multiple devices with the press of a single button. That feature is the bread and butter of this remote and it's great. Instead of wading through the inputs menu of multiple devices on multiple remotes, I press one button and the remote takes care of it all. If a command is missed by a device, for whatever reason, the "help" button almost always fixes the problem with one press. I would rate this remote a 3 or 4 because of these features if not for the shabby build quality.

The first remote I had for about year before it needed to be replaced. The charging dock stopped charging the remote. I contacted Logitech's technical support and without any hassle, they sent me a brand new remote. I'd rate Logitech's tech support A+, but I am not reviewing their service, I'm reviewing this remote.

I've been using the second remote for 6 months now. I press the volume up button and it turns the volume down. It's broken... 0 for 2

As these remotes broke on me I became more critical of the design. I realized I disliked the screen. I bought the remote because of the screen and now I hated it. It is a novel idea but it takes up way too much button pushing real-estate. Besides hitting it once to turn things on I rarely use it, and because of it, buttons that I use often are all tiny and scrunched at the bottom.

Besides the size of the buttons the design and layout of them also leaves a lot to be desired. All of the function buttons are almost exactly the same size and there is not any tactile differences between them. This leads to lots of miss-presses. Also, the number pad is extremely low on the remote which makes using it without two hands very unbalanced and uncomfortable.

I was hoping this remote would be the end-all, be-all remote. Unfortunately, it was not for me. My next remote needs to have the single-button-for-multiple- devices feature, like this one, but it also needs big and chunky buttons, and a more ergonomic design.