This remote has more features than you can shake a stick
at. It took me over an hour to get it
programmed for my TV, DVR, Cable Box and DVD player. I was never able to get it to get my gen2
Tivo to do more than turn off and on.
In all fairness it may be my large fingers and the small keys that
played into the difficulty programming the unit. My Tivo is old and that may be why I couldn’t
get it to work. The number of features
on the unit precludes having larger buttons without upsizing the format of the
remote. I would rather have a larger
remote with larger buttons.
I also think it is interesting that programming remotes
hasn’t improved in ten years. That is a
ball park figure but I know I have not seen any progress in remote
programming. Hold this key while you
wait for the power key to light, then strangle a free range chicken with the
toes of your left foot while simultaneously pressing the power key, feature key
and donkey. Ok, I do tend toward
hyperbole but with the astounding technical advances we have made, surely we
can come up with an inexpensive all-in-one remote that doesn’t take an hour to
program.
This device does work, it now can control several
devices. I suspect if all of your
devices are nearly new you won’t have any difficulty such as I had with my
antiquated Tivo. Keep in mind that
programming will be tedious, hmm unless perhaps you use a stylus. Arrgghh! now I think of that.
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