| Logitech Harmony 550 Universal Remote Control - Refurbished | 
| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  103 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 5.4 x 2.1
MPN: 996-000024
Model: 996-000024
UPC: 097855051707
EAN: 0097855051707
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| Features:
| • | Compatible with TVs, sound systems, and DVD players/recorders from over 3,000 electronics manufacturers | | • | Replace up to 15 remote control devices | | • | Sound and Picture convenience buttons help you change picture aspect ratios and sound modes. | | • | Connect via Windows/Mac PCs to receive updates, configure remote | | • | Interactive LCD screen and backlit keypad |
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Product Description
Throw away the cheat sheet and get intuitive, one-touch control over all your home entertainment components. Want to watch a movie? Play some music? Just say so and let Harmony do the rest. It's easy enough for the houseguests, for the babysitter, for the kids, and of course for you.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 103
 Do not use if you use other remotes too or if you touch your TV ! December 26, 2009
Bart Louwagie (Holmes, NY, United States)
This remote is good if it will be the only remote you'll ever touch, you have a steady supply of batteries and you never drop it. If you are the neat person in a neat family this is a good choice. Enter this in a household with kids - spouse - relatives - friends and you are poised for problems. I'll try to explain why.
This Logitech remote and its siblings try to be smart about how your devices work. So you can tell it to start "playing a DVD" for instance. It should turn the TV and DVD on, and then set each to the right settings, and presto it all works. The problem (for Logitech) is that the signal to turn a TV on is the same as the one for turning it off. We humans can SEE if a device is off or on, but the Logitech device can not, a real problem. Therefore, the Logitech remote tries to remember status of all your devices (on-off, currently chosen input etc. It can do this as long as you or your kids have not touched the on-off on the TV, the power was not turned off or someone touched the "original" remote, or any combination of the above for that matter. As soon as any of those happens, the Logitech remote gets all confused. To counter this; the Logitech remote will ask you after you chose something like "Playing a DVD" if everything worked OK. If it did not it will then ask you to press a button, ask you again, press a button, ask again, on and on until you say yes! it all works. I even gets worse when the Logitech has to choose a specific input on your TV. On our TV for instance there are 8 inputs. Again we humans can SEE the screen to find out what the current input is and can press up or down to get to the right one, but the Logitech can not. So if it remembers it wrong it can ask me eight times "is it working now?". By the way, the buttons with which you answer those questions are small too. So why did we not hide the old remotes? Some things are just much easier on the old remote and other times someone will just press the buttons on the TV to change input for instance.
So yes if you can plan to strictly adhere to the Logitech logic, have really good eyes, never touch anything else and have a steady supply of batteries, then this may be the best thing ever, otherwise the cheap universal remote is much better since it does not try to be smart.
And yes about that reliability: It dropped of a 10" high table and stopped working, so recycled it will be.
Bart
 so worth it December 24, 2009
Robert W. Macready Jr. (NJ)
i've had this remote for some time now and i must say, i don't know how i lived without it. programming does take a little time if you have a lot of items to install in it. but once it's done and you use it a few times life becomes so easier. I programmed it to do several different configurations with the same few components and it works perfectly. a few examples is to turn on the cable box and tv, add the stereo to taht which changes video input, add PS3 and change the video input again, and so forth. all work great, sometimes you need to hit the help button to manually turn on a component but it only takes a second longer. I also added some old components and it worked well too. only problem is with a stereo i had for approximately 15 years and lost the remote. I can only turn that one on and off. if i had the old remote though i could teach it to do everything. I will never be without this or a similar remote again.
 Great remote December 20, 2009
Todd A. Linn (Madison, WI United States)
I initially bought this remote because my dog ate two of my other remotes, including the one for the TV, and I couldn't find anything cheaper that would control the aspect ratio on the TV. I am very happy that I made the leap. It was a breeze to set up, with no issues at all. It's easy and simple enough to use that my wife, mother-in-law, and my wife's cognitively disabled brother had no problems picking it up and just watching TV.
The only complaint I've got about its design is that the red, green, blue, and yellow buttons from my DirecTV remote are now assigned to function buttons next to the LCD, which is just a little strange, and I have to page once to get to them. I believe there are other Harmony remotes that have the four colored buttons to remedy this. The number keys can be a little overly sensitive at times as well--it's not uncommon to take 2-3 attempts to enter a channel because I'll get 5011 or 5001 instead of 501.
All in all, I love this remote, and it has eliminated the need for every other remote in my family room. If/when I have the need, I would not hesitate to buy another.
Best remote I've ever had December 1, 2009
M. Quijano (San Jose, Ca)
This is the best remote I've ever had in my life! Well worth the price.
No need to fiddle around with 5 different remotest for the TV, DVD player, Cable, Sound system, Netflix player. This remote is so smart, it keeps track of what state it thinks each devices is in and what input has been selected. To watch a DVD, it take but 1 click to power on all the appropriate devices. Want to switch to just listening to music, again, just one click and the TV goes off, the sound system is turned on to my ipod and music starts to play.
Programing it is also quite easy. Plug into the USB port on the computer and follow the wizard to customize the remote and add devices.
Factory Refurb is good for me! November 10, 2009
Rory Egan (Dana Point, Ca)
Actually gave this to my parents as a gift, I did the setup, but after that they love it. I dont get the aggravated phone calls anymore that they cant get sound or cant see a picture on the tv, lol... Couldn't even tell it was a refurb besides by the box it came in.
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