[Wun Chiou @ Jul 28th 2007 1:06PM]

@BSW:

Wow, I have a Logitech Harmony 880, and I have to totally disagree with you on nearly everything you said. I love my 880 and find it very easy to use. First of all, it makes no sense to me to resign yourself to having to put a weight on top forever instead of waiting a few weeks for the replacement cradle to be shipped and then never having to worry about it again.

Secondly, the software very easily allows you to control more than one device at a time via Activities, which I actually find very useful. When you set up and activity, it prompts you whether you want the volume buttons to control the volume on the receiver or the tv, for example. If you don't like the default button choices that the programmer makes, you can go back in and manually choose which button you'd like to control which function from which device. 1-2 hours is a ridiculous exaggeration; I could probably do it from scratch in about 15-20 minutes. I currently have it set up to control cable + av receiver + tv and don't have to do any of multi-step control crap that you mention. I just push the "Watch TV" button, all the devices turn on, and all are controlled by the proper buttons on the remote. If you're having to go through the "devices" on the remote every time you want to control a different device, then you're using the remote in the wrong way; use activities to your benefit, rather than trying to fight it.

I will agree that the Slideshow feature is useless. I'll also agree that the random/alphabetical organization of the menus is annoying. Neither of those detract from the fact that it's a great remote, though.