Product Description

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.

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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

The Best
The Harmony 880 is one of the best remotes I have ever used. It is simple to operate and easy to install all your devices that require a remote , including the ceiling fan.

Harmony 880
The 880 is very easy to setup and program. I have several devices and multiple activities and so far the remote controls everything to my satisfaction. I should note that I'm currently using a replacement due to a malfunction with my original. I called customer service at Logitech and after some troubleshooting they shipped a new remote within about a week.

My second Harmony programmable remote
My first unit died after about two years of service. It worked good enough to bring me back for more. The 880 is a very good unit with a bright color display. The display darkens quickly to save the battery life but comes back as soon as you pick up and move the unit. The charging cradle has a light so you can easily find it in a darkened room.

Programming is straightforward, but somewhat lengthy, especially when working out the custom, programmable buttons. If you've never done this before and want to get it exactly right, it will take several trials, but the programming software remembers everything so it's just a matter of experimenting and tweaking. The default suggestions for the programmable buttons for each activity you want to program are, in my opinion, pretty lame, but they are easy to change. with presistance, you can make it exactly right for you.

My biggest complaint about this particular unit is the design of the buttons. Too many of the hardwired buttons are not button-shaped at all. Important buttons like volume and channel are ridges on the surface. The 0-9 numerics are too small. The eight custom buttons are also ridges. The design is too stylish and not functional enough, but you're fingers will get mostly use to it. My previous unit also suffered from poor ergonomics.