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Logitech Harmony 720: the taming of Le Cinema Sparks
By Sparky | December 2, 2006
Brien, Chris, and myself all went to Costco this afternoon. They had a great deal on the Logitech Harmony 720 - the ultimate (6 months ago) home theater remote. It has a color screen on it that enables really advanced features and highly customizable buttons.
Setting the remote up is simple - you hook it up to your computer via USB and tell the little wizard what equipment you have. You can then tweak any settings and set up macros to your hearts content from their interface, then move the settings over to the remote. Logitech has an online service that keeps the remote codes up to date, and has support for more than 17,000 devices.
The remote itself has rechargeable batteries and comes with a little cradle to charge it when you are not using it. The remote also features a tilt sensor so it lights up when you pick it up, and goes to sleep after you put it back down again.
I’m still getting the hang of it, but so far I’m pretty impressed. I’ve gone from needing 3 remotes to tame my home theater to a single easy to use remote. Now I just need to get IR-compatible light-switches for in the living room and I can even macro dimming the lights when I run my “DVD activities” script.
Topics: Audio, Daily grind, Technology, Video |