A terminal gadget freak, I find Ciao an excellent resource for checking out a gadget before buying i...
A terminal gadget freak, I find Ciao an excellent resource for checking out a gadget before buying it.
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OK, I'll admit it, I'm a gadget-freak. A gadget-freak with at least 20 remote controls in the house.Everything I buy seems to have a remote with it. I've tried a five-into-one remote control before, with mixed results, so it took me a while to pluck up the nerve to invest in another remote-control controller. I had the opportunity to play with this model at the Live 2000 show , and found that it had potential to solve my problems. The biggest selling point for me is that it's touch-screen are all fully customisable - both text and button size, and as you can have four screens of button for each device, you don't need to miss off features.
The box is a 'learner', so you point your existing remote at it's base, press the button to assign a command to, then beam it keypress from your normal remote.
It's pretty intuitive, although setting up a complex remote, such as Sky Digital does need a little bit of design work. Setting up my TV, I could use the default suite of buttons on the SRC-2000, and was up-and-running in a couple of minutes. Sky took around 10 minutes to get how I wanted it, and now works a treat.
Other useful features include a timer (to switch my Sky box to other channels when I'm out), and a macro (to switch my TV to satellite, and tune it in to a specified channel, or to fast-record something. Overall, it's a good unit- slightly bulky, but beautifully backlit, and the screen is pretty responsive to keypresses. I still use the normal remotes for TV and video, but the hi-fi and satellite are exclusively run from the SRC-2000 now.
There are no clues as to who this is made by, other than that it's Taiwanese. UK price is around £100, and mine can from www.lektropacks.co.uk, although I've seen them in Hi-fi stores
In day-to-day use, it's still quicker to grab the right remote, but makes for a much less cluttered coffee table!
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Nov 28th, 2000
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