Best Universal Remote that Works with Tivo?
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DO A SEARCH.
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It really depends.
Home theater, cost no object, harmony (my choice) or MX.
Just control TV and TiVo, cost matters--do a search.
Home theater, cost no object, harmony (my choice) or MX.
Just control TV and TiVo, cost matters--do a search.
I received the Harmony 659-ST for Christmas and love it. The setup is entirely internet-based. No macros or programing to do. You just tell the website what components you have and how you use them for each activity and your remote is programed automatically. For example, when I hit the Watch TV button the remote turns on the tv and switches it to the correct input, then turns on the receiver and switches that to the correct input. All of this takes a few seconds. The best part is that the 659 has the tivo peanut design.
It's not cheap, but it's the easiest and best remote out there.
Chris
It's not cheap, but it's the easiest and best remote out there.
Chris
Did you do a search of this thread before giving that answer? That answer has already been given in this thread.
Before you complained that this question comes up at least once a week, did you notice the question you were answering was asked more than two weeks before you responded?
If the question keeps up 'coming up', it is in part because people like keep on adding duplicate answers to 'old' threads. As far as I can see, nobody has started a thread in this forum on that subject for at least two weeks.
Have you considered there is more than one way to do a search. Asking a question and expecting an individual human answer is just as as much a way of doing a search as expecting an automated answer.
Even Google offers the facility for an individual human response. However, what makes this forum special is that nobody expects to get paid for such responses and the reponses are often quicker than the ones given by the Google paid for service.
In an area where new products are coming onto the market it, at a time when new members are joining the forum, it is wise, not foolish, not to rely on last weeks answers, which may be missing the latest hot product or the wisdom of new members. Indeed, somebody doing a search of this forum may have noticed phone1's recent comment "the number of universal remotes that can operate TiVo is still somewhat limited, although growing". A clear indication that new products of this type are coming on to the market.>
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?postid=1659058#post1659058
The topic of the thread was clearly indicated, there was no need for you to open it to add a reply which could just as usefully be given to anybody asking a question anywhere. Now there is a challenge. Come up with questions that have not already been asked and answered on the Internet and other publicly available places.
Sorry, I just get frustrated by seeing the same questions and answers so frequently. I do my best to help people with useful information, but I do expect them to take the time to look a little before asking a question. A simple search of "universal and remote", in the title only, showing results by thread, yields 23 threads, some of which have been updated quite recently.
Usually, when someone here discovers a new TiVo compatible universal remote, they post that information, for all to see. They don't wait for someone to ask first. A search would find that.
BTW, if you checked my signature, you would have seen my recommendation for a universal remote.
Usually, when someone here discovers a new TiVo compatible universal remote, they post that information, for all to see. They don't wait for someone to ask first. A search would find that.
BTW, if you checked my signature, you would have seen my recommendation for a universal remote.
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A hacked 6131 is good if you're controlling just a few components. It has it's downsides though. Small buttons, no backlight, hard to hit the right button in the dark...
But it's still cool when you hack it and change the codes on your computer and make macros.
J
But it's still cool when you hack it and change the codes on your computer and make macros.
J
MX-500 for $99 free shipping
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=90127891&loc=19062
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=90127891&loc=19062
Is there a good picture of a 6131 so you can actually make out the buttons and how they are labeled....All the pics on the internet I can find (even at the manufacture site) are too small to see?
otherwise anybody got a digicam they can snap a shot and post a jpg (or email to macsquid at yahoo dot com )
thx
otherwise anybody got a digicam they can snap a shot and post a jpg (or email to macsquid at yahoo dot com )
thx
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