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Phlilips Prestigo SRU8010 Icon Universal Remote Control |
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | Home-Theater is a wonderful thing but (yaaargh) keeping track of all those remotes is such a hassle. iconRemote Universal Remote is the best thing to happen. With its large, easy-to-read buttons and vivid color LCD screen which displays the network logos of my favorite channels, the iconRemote is an extremely user-friendly Universal Remote that will take place of up to 10 remote controllers. With the iconRemote, channel surfing has never been easier! Set your favorite channels with the cool ?Favorite Channels? feature and all the familiar icons for my favorite channels are displayed right on its full color LCD screen. Philips IconRemote stores up to 90 favorite channels for each user (up to 2 users).
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Convenient, large buttons. A large, backlit LCD screen. Individual user programmability. Sleep Timer and Child Restriction modes. With so many amazing features at your command, it's easy to see why the Philips IconRemote Universal Remote Control is the last remote you'll ever need. Easy Setup - No PC Required Macro capabilities Power Save Backlight Delay Sleep Mode for All Devices Kid Safe Mode Control up to 10 different audio/video components such as your TV, VCR, DVD, Cable Box, Satellite, Stereo System, and even Combo Devices (TV/VCR, DVD/VCR) Uses 3 AA Batteries | |
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| Recommended, must be patient with initial setup | |
| | There are several useful reviews already posted. I find the 8010 a great learning remote. The initial setups are, indeed, very straightforward with the use of its internal 'wizards'. However, like many reviewers have noted, it does take patience to setup up Favorites and Macros.
One also has to realize that though the Wizards may help with the bulk of the setup, most times, not all functions on a remote are covered. That's where the beauty of the LEARNING portion comes in. Simply teach or tweak any of the buttons not setup in the wizard.
Though it may intimidate some, I prefer this model with its several keys versus the touch screen model in this Prestigo family or those with fewer buttons. What some fail to realize that you trade aesthetics for reduced number of button pushing. In other words, if the remote had fewer buttons or a touch screen like its cousins, that means buried menus or repeated taps of a touch screen just to get at a function. With the 8010, all functions are available with single button pushes. You want to be able to feel and use the remote by touch and not necessarily look away from the TV.
I was very impressed with the LCD and the shear number and, more importantly, relevance of many of the network icons.
Some Cons and Tips:
Con- Though mentioned in the manual and shown in icon form on the remote itself, it must be said that the learning is done "head to tail" vs "head to head". In other words, the learning IR is located at the bottom of the 8010, so to learn another remote's function, you must hold the old remote's top pointed to the 8010's bottom--instead of IR bulb to IR bulb. I list it as a con simply because this is not the norm with many learning remotes I've used nor with previous models of Philips learning remotes.
Con- As many have said, the inability to rename macros is an oversight and nuisance.
Con- Love the favorites function, but, again, the Reorder function is painful since one must use a ladder method to move channels around rather than inserting a channel and thus moving the existing channels "down a notch". You are almost better off writing them down before entering them on the remote.
Con- I understand that this is a mid-level learning remote and to add a USB interface would've raised the price, but it would have been nice to be able to update the logo icons or even use your own.
TIP: Put as many functions as you can in 1 mode setting. The remote CAN LEARN FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT REMOTES when in ONE mode. Many make the mistake that because you are in Satellite mode, you have to switch to TV mode to use some not often used, but necessary commands. Wouldn't it be easier to have all functions in one setting? Save yourself from unnecessary mode switching. For example, the SLEEP function. In the Satellite mode, I've programmed the SAP key with the SLEEP button command from the TV remote, even though I'm in Satellite mode. Now there's no need to go to TV mode, set a sleep timer, then push buttons to get back into Satellite mode. All of that is now done with 1 button push and just a mental note. So what if a guest or grandma or dad don't know that it's there. They can go the long way.
TIP: Re-program buttons so that they make sense to you. Some reviews have complained about the placement of the Mute button or that not enough buttons are there. I've made the minus button my mute button. It's not super close to the volume buttons, but it's now in a position that I can push by feel. In another example, I have a DVR. I've programmed the Tivo buttons on the 8010 to work for my non-Tivo DVR making the back arrow and forward arrow function as the Skip Back and Skip Fwd buttons. The Thumbs Up and Thumbs Dwn buttons and Input buttons control my PIP funtions. I could program LCD buttons, but why have my fingers move up an already long remote, when I can keep them near the Play, Pause, Rec buttons?
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| How not to write an Owner's Manual | |
| | I just finished programming my Prestigo SRU8010.
It took me hours of patient trial and error to figure out how to make it work and I'm still not completely satisfied.
As an example, my Yamaha HTR-5850 receiver (very popular family of devices) is not supported by the built in programming.
And there are plenty of inconsistencies:
"His" favorite channels are limited to a max of 10, while "Hers" could be as many as 18 channels.
There is a main "On" button, but not an "Off" button for devices that, instead of toggling, have dedicated commands for these functions.
The punch-through feature (an absolute must for these multi-device remotes) works only for Volume, Channel and Play, and there is no punch-through option for "Channel Guide" for when you are watching cable/sat TV, which for me is 90% of the time (I could not find a work around solution).
The creation of macros is possible only by learning the IR commands from the original brand name remotes, but impossible with the IR commands already programmed in the Prestigo.
For the price, it's not a bad remote, but the person(s) who wrote and approved the inane Owner's Manual should be instantly fired. It is as if the writer never actually tried to program the Prestigo himself. The language is confusing, there are no tutorials, and no actual examples, other than for the most elementary sequences.
The whole emphasis of the manual is on the fancy "favorite" graphic display, which operates through very small buttons.
Incidentally, the overall ergonomics could be improved with no significant extra cost, but as they say: don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
It is a very sad corporate decision for Philips to sell a "good and inexpensive" device with a manual written by a rank amateur.
Phlilips Prestigo SRU8010 Icon Universal Remote Control
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| | This remote is just what I wanted. I have been able to program it to perform all the functions of my Scientific Atlanta cable box/DVR and enough functions on my Samsung flat screen and Denon AVR to be able to put away all three remotes. I will only need them for changing calibration settings and other functions that I rarely use. Other reviews I've read here and other sites say that programming this remote is difficult and frustrating. This is true to some extent, but if you keep at it, the effort is worth it. One review basically said that if you need to change something, you'd have to reset the whole thing and start over. This is NOT true. I was able to make several changes by just using the learning function again. One review said that the remote sometimes says that a function has been successfully learned when it really hasn't been. This is true and is one of the most frustrating parts of programming the remote. I found that it sometimes takes four or more times to actually learn a function. I don't know if that is the remote's fault or mine, but I do know that if you keep trying, it will finally work. And once it is programmed exactly like you want it, it's fantastic.
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| Universal Learning remote | |
| | A very good looking unit and very versital. Easy to program and easy to teach. Nice LCD backlit screen. My only fault was not all the stored codes worked on my 9 devices. just lucky I had the original remotes to teach with. Wish it had a USB port to interface with my computer.
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| Won't Power On Yamaha HTR-5760 Receiver | |
| | I really like the functionality of this remote as well as the price, but I cannot get it to power ON my Yamaha HTR-5760 AV receiver, though it will power it off and operate the volume control. So, it is really of no use to me as the receiver is one of the main components in my system and I intend on creating one button macros to setup watching a movie, or the TV through my receiver, etc... Yamaha and Philips tech support were fairly useless to help me with the problem, so I'm going to have to return it. Additionally I did try to go through the "learn" function with my receiver remote and the Philips on the power on button but that didn't work either.
I'm only writing this review so others know the problem I came across and don't waste your time, and money, if you have this model receiver.
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