Positive experience, till now!
Pros:
Reasonable price. 8 in 1.
Cons:
Some small buttons,labels, no backlight. Too thin.
The Bottom Line:
Recommended for DVR, TIVO, ReplayTV users, and affordable. Too many buttons but complete. Rare 8 in 1. A future version with info screen a must. It accepted AC remote functions!!
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Author's Review
I bought this remote two weeks ago to replace a Sony RM-AV2100, with touch screen (!!!) remote "commander" that i bought 5 years ago by $200.00.
Well, i need to replace it, because i change my satellite box for a new HD DVR satellite box with TIVO, and a new DVD recorder. I tried to reprogram my old Sony remote, but it doesn't recognize most of new TIVO features, so that's impossible to still use it.
This Philips (Model: PMDVR8) offers all i need (for 8 different devices), by an affordable price ($27.99 TAX). I found it at BestBuy store.
The instructions manual just have 24 pages in english (spanish and french included) and has reasonable instructions. The universal code list, came in a separate paper. I easily programmed the remote with code list numbers (tree digit codes). It accepted pretty good all my components (Sony-3, JVC, Magnavox).
Some other advanced functions that i like to use on each component, must be learned by the remote. It accepts the majority, but some features it doesn't accept.
One of the problems i noticed is the fact that you must place this remote and the original one in a distance of one inch, and in a hard surface. But sometimes it doesn't recognize the infrared information. You must to try again later, other time, maybe next day(!!)... remotes with bad moods...(????)
Now i can control 5 different components. Today i tried to program the remote of my sitting room air conditioner and... it works!!
So, till now i have 6 different devices controlled just from one remote. Amazing for the price...
The remote itself, is very light and thin. No problem at all. Some buttons are small and in low light conditions you'll experience some difficult to find and read buttons and labels (no backlight).
Until now i just noticed few memory problems because some programmed buttons forgot what they learnt (happened only two times). I reprogrammed it and works nice again and i hope that this will not happend again.
I hope this will be my main remote control for many years. Overall i like it.
