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Truth be told, I have a new pet in the house, and it is not of the furry variety. It's called a Kameleon, and as I parted with the money at our local electrical wholesalers, I wondered if in fact I had made an error of judgement that I would later regret.
The Kameleon comes packed in an impressive box, supplied with its own four batteries, and an instruction book that looks to me like rocket science, that I shall tell you about later.
Why a Kameleon ?
The logic was simple. Surely in this day and age there must be someone who had produced a remote control that covered all the many electrical items that I had in my living room. It irritated me that we either lost remote controls down the back of the sofa, or batteries ran out, or in the worst case scenario, could not locate the remote when we needed it.
Having recently bought a
DVD Video combination, and a new flash television, I was getting to grips with how to use the remote control for each of these and truthfully I was struggling, not because their instructions were lacking, but because my own eye sight was failing me, and even with glasses on, I could hardly make out the functions of each of the buttons.
When I asked the man at the electrical store whether such a remote control existed, he pointed me towards to Kameleon and offered it to me at a price that I thought was a reasonable gamble at just under thirty pounds.
Sound like a lot of money ? Well it did to me too, and for me, had to be a practical solution and one that worked. I am pretty technophobic but with sound instruction and a good instruction booklet, can follow what I am told to do.
Unpacking the unit was fun. It was like christmas, atlhough what it was about to show me, I was unprepared for. I had to unscrew the back of the unit to insert the batteries, instead of the normal slide that exists on all my other remotes, placed the batteries into the unit, and closed the battery section with its screw, and turned the unit over.
What greeted me was the clearest remote control that I have ever seen, with bright blue functions displayed through what looks like thick plastic. It positively glows.
Having come to terms with the huge display area and liking what I saw, I opened the instruction booklet, which is in five languages, and commenced the procedure of tuning in my appliances to the remote control. Here, I thought that I may encounter difficulty since my Television and Video/DVD unit were new, and only recently put on the market and I thought that the list of codes found at the back of the book may be lacking.
Pressing the picture at the top of either television, dvd, satellite, video, music or hifi, each of the individual units I possessed is processed and put into the memory of the remote control, and whilst searching for the code needed to program the remote control, there is a fun feature where you press and a rabbit appears out of a hat until you find the correct code to switch off the appliance you have started.
Setting up the television, dvd, video, satellite and hifi unit on the one handset took around fifteen minutes, and the unit really does do what it says it does, giving you extra functions to use for storing favourite functions and channels easily, simply by taking information from your existing remote controls.
Furthermore the makers offer a website, and a telephone service whereby information can be fed to the remote for equipment not already covered by the extensive list of products at the back of the booklet.
Using the remote is fun. Normally dark coloured to the eye, the unit is touch sensitive and lights up as soon as it is picked up. I noticed that all of my electrical equipment reacts faster than it did with its own remote control and that signals at a distance were no problem to the Kameleon. It's a fantastic bit of kit and although retailing at almost Seventy Pounds in the UK, can be found online cheaper, and is well worthwhile the search.
The unit comes with a years manufacturers guarantee, and is simply beyond my expectations in both ease of use and effectiveness and the bonus for me is the brightness of the display which means I do not have to don spectacles in order to ask it to do things, unlike the other remote controls with small buttons that are hard to read.
I really do think that this is a gizmo that would help those with bad sight as well as those who are burdened with several remote controls in the same room. Its functionality is outstanding, and its user friendliness amazing.
My new pet Kameleon is worth its weight in gold.
Rachel
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I have abouve 5 remotes, this sounds like something I couild make good use of - as long as it works with Sky + Jane x
solamarie 28.11.2005 19:46
We bought something like this a few years ago, after spending ages reading all the makes it worked with we found that it didn't work with ours so a waste of money, we had already taken it out of it's plastic straightjacket and put batteries in so it couldn't go back to the shop, this one sounds good though, Sue
berlioz 27.11.2005 14:38
I'm always missing that one control that I need at any given time. This sounds like a great combo-replacement though with my luck I'd end up loosing that too... Berli
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