Product Description

The Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It's home entertainment the way it should be - simple. Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16: 9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4: 3 ratio for basic television programming.

Product Details

• Brand: Logitech
• Model: 966187-0403
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 10.50" w x 6.50" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems
• Quickly choose a 16:9 or 4:3 ratio depending on the program source
• Includes a sleek docking station that keeps the remote fully charged
• Color LCD is both functional and stylish, with user-customizable backgrounds, button icons and text
• On-screen battery level indicator shows you charge status

From the Manufacturer

The Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It's home entertainment the way it should be--simple.

Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4:3 ratio for basic television programming.  

Color display
Why settle for another boring remote?  The Harmony 880´s color LCD is both functional and stylish, with user-customizable backgrounds, activity selections, button icons and text.

• Ample space for up to eight custom activities or controls
• On-screen battery level indicator shows you charge status

Recharging station
Never replace batteries again. The Harmony 880 includes a sleek docking station that keeps the remote fully charged. Your family will always know where to put the remote—and you´ll always know where to find it!  

• Lithium-ion battery provides up to a one-week charge under normal use
• The horizontal docking station allows remote to be used while charging

Award-winning Logitech Industrial Design
High-end systems deserve a high-end remote.  Designed with brushed chrome and charcoal accents, a color LCD display and a low-profile recharging station, the Harmony® 880 Remote will match your most advanced audio-video components perfectly. 

Logitech has won a total of eight Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the past two years, including five of Japan´s prestigious 2004 Good Design Awards. This experience helped us design the Harmony 880.  Featuring a comfort grip shape and a centered directional pad, it fits easily in your hand and naturally guides you to the most frequently used controls.  Even the buttons are sculpted, to help you locate them by feel not sight. 

Customer Reviews

How could you live without one???!!!
I have been using my Harmony since Christmas. As an IT guy I was especially impressed with the configuration process. I could have given this thing to my daughter to setup and she would have been done in less than 30 minutes. It's easy to setup, easy to use, and just plain cool!

One thing I was impressed with was it's ability to control our 360. We have my sons account setup to be the default Xbox account, so when I want to play something, I can turn it on, log him off, and log myself on without even picking up a controller. I have had no issues with it at this point. I like the fact that the battery is a drop in and easily replaceable... we'll see how long it will last with being recharged a few times a week, but ultimatly it won't be a big deal since the batteries are cheep.

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Poor reliability!
I have owned this remote for slightly more than one year. The first unit failed within a few months and after a lot of aggravation I received a replacement. After using this replacement for approximately 8 months it's failed too. The remote worked well initially but the quality control and product durabilty are questionable at best. This remote has not seen any hard use nor has it ever been dropped yet it has failed again just outside of the warranty period. If you must have this item buy an extended warranty as you're going to need it.

a lifesaver! well worth the money
Getting this remote has made it a lot easier to use our home theater system. The system has many different components - receiver, DVD player, TV, cable box/DVR, ipod & dock, each with separate remotes. Watching TV or switching from cable TV to DVD required pushing buttons on 3 different remotes, in a particular order. Not too hard for me, but nearly impossible for my parents (when they visited, I had to write down instructions on what buttons to push to watch a DVD - and even then, they'd call me at work for "support").

The Logitech Harmony ended these frustrations. Now, there's ONE remote, and you touch ONE button to watch TV or switch to DVD. The remote knows what combination of commands to send to each device and in what order.

How does it work? When you first get the Logitech Harmony, you install software on your computer. You tell the software the brand and model number of each component in your home theater system. The software constantly updates from Logitech's online database of components, so you never have to worry that your components won't be supported by the Harmony remote.

Once the software knows each of your components, you define "activities," such as "watch TV" or "listen to iPod" or whatever. This is very easy - just tell it which of your components are used for each activity.

Finally, connect the Harmony remote to your computer via the supplied cable (which is a standard USB cable, not proprietary). The software loads the relevant information onto your remote, and you're done. The whole setup process takes 15 minutes - and most of that time is just looking up the model names and numbers of your components.

Now your remote is ready. Just press "watch TV" and it will turn on your receiver, your cable box, and your TV. Press "watch DVD" and it will turn off your cable box, turn on your DVD player, and change the receiver from cable TV to DVD.

The Harmony even controls my iPod, when docked in my remote-capable Apple iPod dock. (Only for next track, previous track, stop, pause, play, and volume, just like the typical Apple iPod remote.)

Now when my parents visit, they can entertain themselves with DVDs or TV while I'm working, and they never need "tech support" with the home theater system. Just their computer, but that's another story.

In sum, the Logitech Harmony is a well-designed and very easy to use product, and I think very well worth the money.