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Summary: The best universal remote of the four I have owned
Review: The AV-2000 is by far the best UR I have owned or seen. As a quadriplegic, I live by remote controlled entertainment appliances. The AV-2000 combines the best of pre-programmed and programmable features; one can even have both pre-programmed and learned functions for each device. Especially nice is the broad spectrum of the IR signal. The AV-2000 will initiate a function even if the control is pointed away from the device to be controlled.
Rating:
Summary: The best universal remote of the four I have owned
Review: The AV-2000 is by far the best UR I have owned or seen. As a quadriplegic, I live by remote controlled entertainment appliances. The AV-2000 combines the best of pre-programmed and programmable features; one can even have both pre-programmed and learned functions for each device. Especially nice is the broad spectrum of the IR signal. The AV-2000 will initiate a function even if the control is pointed away from the device to be controlled.
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Summary: Great remote, but one design oversight
Review: This is an excellent remote for those with more than a few remotes cluttering the coffee table; easy to use, great range, and it looks pretty cool as well. The reviews noting the thickness are spot on - there's a large battery bulge in the bottom, but it's not too unwieldy. One of the nice features is that there are not too many physical buttons. This gives it a clean look, but the most often accessed buttons should be the physical ones. Sony missed an obvious design issue here - the numeric buttons should have been made physical. They are present in almost every function and by moving these often repeated buttons to physical keys it would free up 10 extra LCD keys for more advanced programming. Maybe Sony is listening and we'll see a revised model soon...Overall one of the best universal remotes and it's definitely the least expensive of the LCD's I've run across - by 50% or more.
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Summary: Great remote, but one design oversight
Review: This is an excellent remote for those with more than a few remotes cluttering the coffee table; easy to use, great range, and it looks pretty cool as well. The reviews noting the thickness are spot on - there's a large battery bulge in the bottom, but it's not too unwieldy. One of the nice features is that there are not too many physical buttons. This gives it a clean look, but the most often accessed buttons should be the physical ones. Sony missed an obvious design issue here - the numeric buttons should have been made physical. They are present in almost every function and by moving these often repeated buttons to physical keys it would free up 10 extra LCD keys for more advanced programming. Maybe Sony is listening and we'll see a revised model soon... Overall one of the best universal remotes and it's definitely the least expensive of the LCD's I've run across - by 50% or more.
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Summary: Excellent Remote to Replace all others
Review: This is high end LCD remote control technology with the ability to "Learn" signals from your existing remotes. LCD display with blue backlight is awesome. Had 6 components up and running with ALL remote control buttons in less than 30 minutes. Have seen similar items in the $300-400 range.
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Summary: The Good with The Bad
Review: We'll start with the good. My 8 remotes are tucked away on a bottom shelf of a coffee table, which is a relief. The Sony RM-AV2000 makes my life considerably easier. The back-lit touch-screen feature is cool in its own right. The ability to control 12 items is even cooler. It's very easy to program and equally easy to "teach" commands. However, for it all it has going for it, it lacks a lot as well. My personal biggest gripe is a designated key for a LaserDisc player. Most hardcore home theater people who own 12 items (as the unit implies) owns a laserdisc player. Also, for any disc-type machine (cd, dvd, ld, even MD) the preset commands only give you "scan" keys and not "skip" keys. In order to skip, you need to reprogram the keys or use the number keys, which, since they're part of just about every command, should be OFF of the touch-screen and down on the bottom. Even the presets for Sony items lack features or have excessive butons. All in all, my "tri-corder," as I jokingly refer to it as, IS exceptionally handy. But don't go packing away all of your original remotes just yet.
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