Product Description

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

• Brand: Logitech
• Model: 966187-0403
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 10.50" w x 6.50" l, 4.00 pounds

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

From the Manufacturer

The Logitech 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.  

Color display
Why settle for another boring remote?  The Harmony 880´s color LCD is both functional and stylish, with user-customizable backgrounds, activity selections, button icons and text.

• Ample space for up to eight custom activities or controls
• On-screen battery level indicator shows you charge status

Recharging station
Never replace batteries again. The Harmony 880 includes a sleek docking station that keeps the remote fully charged. Your family will always know where to put the remote—and you´ll always know where to find it!  

• Lithium-ion battery provides up to a one-week charge under normal use
• The horizontal docking station allows remote to be used while charging

Award-winning Logitech Industrial Design
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 us design the Harmony 880.  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. 

Patented Smart State Technology®
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.

Easy to set-up Easy to use Easy to get help Never out of date Package Contents Harmony® 880 remote control Recharging Station AC adapter USB cable Lithium-ion battery Installation CD Installation guide

System Requirements IBM® compatible PC Windows® 98, 2000, Me, XP USB port CD-ROM drive Internet access Macintosh® Macintosh® OS X 10.2 or later USB port CD-ROM drive Internet access

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Customer Reviews

FANTASTIC! Too easy!
I loved that all I had to do was install the software, put in my device name and model number...and the Harmony did the rest! I heart Harmony!

Why did I wait so long?

Almost perfect - a few flaws
I have three different Harmony remotes -- I'm a big fan. This one is the most expensive of the three that I own, and it definitely has some benefits over its less expensive brethren. It's not completely without flaws, thoguh.

First, as I indicated above, I'm a big fan of Harmony Remotes. You can program them to do everything that any of your devices' IR remotes can do. In general, the dedicated buttons on the remote are enough to handle the tasks that you do 90% of the time. Less frequently used functions can be configured to appear on the LCD screen, which displays 8 items at a time, and can scroll. For really seldom-used functions, everything that a device's original remote can do is accessible in "Device" mode.

I have never had any trouble with the website's programming applets. Some folks hate them, but I'm not one of them. There have been occasions where I have had to try a configuration, and go back to tweak it, because it wasn't working exactly the way I wanted it to. I would rather do this on my computer, using the website's huge database of devices and IR codes, than to try to program it manually, the way I used to have to do with older universal remotes.

I also do not have the problems that some other folks complain about where the device state gets out of sync. I always program my devices using what they call "discrete codes", where there's a different command for "On" and "Off", instead fo a single "Toggle Power" command, and different commands for TV input selection. I never have to try to find the discrete code settings, even if they're not provided by the device's original remote, because Logitech's online device database already has all of the discrete codes for all of my devices stored and ready for me to use.

The Harmony 880, in particular, is really nice. I like having the dedicated charger stand, not only becuase I don't have to change the batteries, but because I always know where to find the remote. The charger stand itself is not without its wrinkles. As others have mentioned in their reviews, sometimes the remote gets a little finicky about precise positioning. This has gotten worse in the years since I bought the remote, to the point where I ended up talking to customer service about it. They have inidcated that I will be able to get a replacement cradle which corrects this issue, although the promised call back has been a little delayed in coming.

One other issue with this particular model is that the buttons are fairly smooth and flush to the body of the remote. This can make it a bit of a challenge to find the right button in the dark. The remote does have a motion-sensitive backlight feature, which makes the button-finding problem tolerable - if you pick it up (or sometimes shake it a bit), it lights up.

The button layout itself is fine. Buttons are right where they ought to be, seldom used buttons are smaller and out of the way. This model has all of the buttons that I need for the room where I use it, which includes a DVR.

Overall, this is a solid remote, at the expensive end of the awesome Harmony line. I've recommended Harmony remotes to everyone who's faced remote problems. If it weren't for the problems I've mentioned, I'd give it 5 stars. As it stands, it's just a bit short of perfect.

Excellent Timesaver!
I purchased this Harmony 880 remote after talking with many of my technophile family members and friends. I wanted something that would work with all my a/v equipment and still be user friendly and easy to use. This remote is AWESOME! This remote takes just a few moments to program online (you have to enter all your equipment make/model numbers), then just follow the prompts, upload the data to the remote and viola! I also purchased the NYKO BluWave remote so I could use my Harmony 880 with my Sony PlayStation 3. Works like a charm.

Special thanks to other reviewers for all the helpful hints on how to set things up, troubleshoot some issues and how to fix them. I encourage everyone to read as many of the reviews as possible, because they include quite a lot of helpful information and fixes.

Bottom line: This Harmony 880 Universal Remote really is Universal. I now have ONE remote which operates EVERYTHING instead of SIX! Color me HAPPY!