Advantages: Completes complex source switching with a single keystroke
Disadvantages: Not much

...I have a complex AV system that has separate audio and video signal paths. This makes switching sources a nightmare that involves multiple remote controls and a lot of concentration. I have tried many programmable remotes over the years (three in the last 2 years) and this Logitech Harmony product stands head and shoulders above the rest. The set up requires a PC or MAC. I found the software excellent. Initially the software asks for the make and model numbers of the devices you want to operate. Logitech have a huge library of devices (they claim 175,000+). If your device is not there it has the ability to learn from the original R/C. Then you can set up activities listing the devices involved and the initial setting for each. For example watching a DVD may need the TV, DVD and AV amp with the TV source set to scart 2. If you need... Read review

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Advantages: controls every device in your house
Disadvantages: its huge!, looks like a desktop calculator

...The Sony RM AV3000 is a dynamic peice of equiptment. It mimics the remote control of loads of devices. By using the touch screen control, it reduces the shown buttons to only the ones you require for the device you are controling, instead of having hundreds of buttons for every option which i found mind blowing on competitor units. Be aware though its a big peice of equiptment, it looks more like a desk top calculator on your sofa arm than a remote control, the clever boffins have made the infared so strong that you don't have to point it in any particular direction so it can just stay next to you on the sofa arm; your device will pick up the signal easily. I really like the ability to programme this unit, mine is set up to switch off my TV, DVD, Amplifier and projector all in one button press, or to set up for cinema (amp on/tv off... Read review

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Advantages: Tense, Captures you in the moment, very descriptive.
Disadvantages: My Widescreen is gathering dust...

...is based on the author thus we get a more complex character as the author is Nick, he has felt what Nick has felt. From this we find it easier to relate to the character which again contributes to the beleivability. Kelly Brown: Daughter to Nick's best friend Kevin Brown. She develops a mental problem after she sees her family brutally murdered. Kelly is a pivital character in Remote Control, and the rest of the series (Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter) --:PLOT:-- It starts with Nick, working for the SAS in Gibraltar, following Irish terrorists suspected of planting a car bomb, and ends up with a shootout between one of the terrorists and Nick. We then cut forward to 1997, where he is now working as a K (Basically a spy on deniable operations) Stone gets sent to Washington DC following suspected... Read review

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Advantages: one remote for all gadgets, not got lots of remotes hanging about
Disadvantages: bulky to hold, expensive

...Ever get fed up with having lots of remote controls??? one for sky, one for tv, one dvd, one for video, one for hi-fi, well this is how i felt until i come across this sony remote commander, i always picked up the wrong one just as favourite programme was about to start, making me miss the beginning, well not any more. This sony remote is black in colour