carlitozway wrote:I'm guessing this won't change the source on tv automatically right? That is, if Cable is HDMI1 and the Xbox is Component 1 on the tv, when I switch from one to the other it won't switch the source. Rather it will allow me to have just one remote that will both allow me to change the source and change the channel on the cable box, but manually...

...right?

can you say that in english?

i believe we have found how to get western americans jollies off!

compassstl wrote:Unless it controls a fleet of Roombas, Dysons, Sansas, USB Fish Tanks, LeakFrogs, and randomly produces Bags o' carp, I'm not interested.
...Even if only for $5+$5s/h.

Anyone know if it's Mac compatible?

=)

Edit: Damn you, Atomsplitter!!

I have the Icon Remote from X10.com here:
http://www.x10.com/promotions/ir10a_em_ppt_6999_home.html

I bought the same thing for my father here:
http://www.buy.com/prod/philips-prestigo-sru8010-icon-universal-remote-control-tv-vcr-dvd/q/loc/111/205811340.html

And then they have this knock-off of them.... llo I am down for 3 as any old person can have a "speed channel changer button" and not have to remember the channel, does 10 of those.. how many people have 10 channels they watch, not many - especially if you only have locals.

I wouldn't trade my icon remote for anything, if I didn't have it, I would have this instead!!!!

I bought one. I hope it;s a steal for 4.99

Only time will tell.

Night all!

roberto002 wrote:The product description says it has a learning feature

The problem is that I don't have the original remote, and my last learning remote failed to learn it when I tried to from a friend's remote. Built-in codes are much handier.

theATOMsplitter wrote:can you say that in english?

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what if you no longer have the original remote? how will it learn then?

In for 3. This way I split S&H cost three ways. Still it is 33% of actual product cost.

Hey I found these sold in stores for $20 each, so it is steal.

I will find out later if I made the right decision.

Cheers!

shaginwgn wrote:My girlfriend has exact remote. I like it and works great. In for 2.

Yeah, I'll go two, too, one for me, and one for an unexpected X-mas guest (that poor, sad, mo-fo, whoever it may be), or the mom-in-law.

What I want to know is why Fox is in the number one spot on the remote??

The window for the ir reciever for the learning is on the back end, so don't put them nose to nose, put them nose to tail.

Chomeric wrote:Not remote savvy, so help me out here.
Would this thing work on my timewarner cable box?
I assume it would since it has like HBO and stuff in it, but I just want to be sure before I get it.

It will, by way of either 2-3 ways it states it is capable, e.g., the device tables/codes, IR-to-IR learning functions, etc.

One father, one father-in-law, and one grandfather-in-law who will dig this for Christmas. In for THREE!

I'm not gonna lie, if you want one for yourself get the real icon remote for $35 with free shipping from buy.com. For gifts get this one and then tell them there's one better when they tell you they love this one so much.. llo Trust me, if they don't love it they're idiots.. If they do.. well you helped them out to a greater life of faster channel surfing.

carlitozway wrote:I'm guessing this won't change the source on tv automatically right? That is, if Cable is HDMI1 and the Xbox is Component 1 on the tv, when I switch from one to the other it won't switch the source. Rather it will allow me to have just one remote that will both allow me to change the source and change the channel on the cable box, but manually...

...right?

Assuming your current TV remote can change the input sources (why wouldn't it) then you can have this remote "learn" the menu button or "change source" button.

Woot! First woot!

JohnnyLemonhead wrote:Look, you can make any channel's label you want. How? Here's how:

1. Type in the name of the desired channel in a Google search window
2. Click or press enter
3. Click on "Images" in the top left hand corner of the screen
4. Find an image of the channel's logo
5. Save the image to your desktop
6. Open a popular photo editor such as Photoshop
7. Resample the image down to a smaller size, leaving a similar border size between the logo and the edges of the canvas as the pre-included logo stickers have.
8. Print test labels onto a sheet of regular 8.5"x11" paper so as not to waste valuable label paper.
9. If correct size (defined as within 2mm of the pre-included labels) print onto label paper
10. Carefully cut (preferably with a paper cutter) into similar size as pre-included labels
11. Apple to your remote
12. Feel satisfied and capable

Wow, you take your labeling seriously

MMMMusic wrote:I have to disagree. Looking around the whole house for 6 remotes every time you want to watch a movie doesn't seem all that manly. I rather have a Harmony like my girlfriends because it works better than heaven, but for ten bucks, it might be worth a try. I'm gonna sleep on this one.

What Harmony model you talking about, there are at least 6-8 of them, ranging from the $69 and $89 models (no LCDs), to their two touch screen versions that list for $350 and $450?

An ESPN Chess sticker! FINALLY - I am so there! (not)

MMMMusic wrote:I have to disagree. Looking around the whole house for 6 remotes every time you want to watch a movie doesn't seem all that manly. I rather have a Harmony like my girlfriends because it works better than heaven, but for ten bucks, it might be worth a try. I'm gonna sleep on this one.

A Harmony.. llo Why pay so much for those when you get get the Icon Remote for $35 from buy.com, this if you're too cheap for that.. I can't even believe you mentioned Harmony when that is so SO OVER RATED.. Try an icon Remote and you'll take that price difference and party with it instead.. llo

Figures.....I just bought a MX-500 remote for nearly 20x more. Not that I'd trade it for this, just figures something like this would come up on woot now. Kinda like Leak Frogs coming up for sale after the basement has flooded, and the problem corrected.

Damn you woot for not considering my purchasing needs first!!!!

technical mumbo jumbo
aw screw it i'm in for one
been forever since i bought anything
here's 10 bux!

llo @ probation for proclaiming joy over first time giving woot money..
bravo BenRain
bravo woot

edited by gimmaroon. Yeah already. I said "Sorry." to BenRain.

Ordered 2 and probably should have gone for 3.

That's for real!

JohnnyLemonhead wrote:Look, you can make any channel's label you want. How? Here's how:

1. Type in the name of the desired channel in a Google search window
2. Click or press enter
3. Click on "Images" in the top left hand corner of the screen
4. Find an image of the channel's logo
5. Save the image to your desktop
6. Open a popular photo editor such as Photoshop
7. Resample the image down to a smaller size, leaving a similar border size between the logo and the edges of the canvas as the pre-included logo stickers have.
8. Print test labels onto a sheet of regular 8.5"x11" paper so as not to waste valuable label paper.
9. If correct size (defined as within 2mm of the pre-included labels) print onto label paper
10. Carefully cut (preferably with a paper cutter) into similar size as pre-included labels
11. Apple to your remote
12. Feel satisfied and capable

carlitozway wrote:I'm guessing this won't change the source on tv automatically right? That is, if Cable is HDMI1 and the Xbox is Component 1 on the tv, when I switch from one to the other it won't switch the source. Rather it will allow me to have just one remote that will both allow me to change the source and change the channel on the cable box, but manually...

...right?

Right. If you want to combine actions/key-strokes, then you need a universal remote that is capable of creating "macros," i.e., putting a series of key-strokes on a single key of your remote...and there are MANY TO CHOSE FROM, and they start at about $30, e.g., X10.com, and run into the thousands of dollars.

Will it learn the code from my car alarm keyfob and my garage door opener? I want to use it for everything...

JohnnyLemonhead wrote:Look, you can make any channel's label you want. How? Here's how:

1. Type in the name of the desired channel in a Google search window
2. Click or press enter
3. Click on "Images" in the top left hand corner of the screen
4. Find an image of the channel's logo
5. Save the image to your desktop
6. Open a popular photo editor such as Photoshop
7. Resample the image down to a smaller size, leaving a similar border size between the logo and the edges of the canvas as the pre-included logo stickers have.
8. Print test labels onto a sheet of regular 8.5"x11" paper so as not to waste valuable label paper.
9. If correct size (defined as within 2mm of the pre-included labels) print onto label paper
10. Carefully cut (preferably with a paper cutter) into similar size as pre-included labels
11. Apple to your remote
12. Feel satisfied and capable

#11 -Apple... so this will work with a mac?

if you can find a phillips garage door opener u might just be in luck!

jsp wrote:Lots more details here:

Excellent, spotlight-worthy linkage

The Philips page for Remote Codes is here: Remote Code Finder urc.philips.com

I'm thinking about it - for a Dad and Hubby both of whom have failing eyesight and decreasing patience with things such as remote controls... if this gizmo would simplify the Tv/DVD/VCR/Cable box controlers for them, it would be a god-send....

If you program it FOR HIM (and it isn't difficult *IF* you just have the remote in one hand, and its manual in the other, as you just go step by step, i.e., they are all different as far as programming, and FAR from intuitive...meaning you ain't even gonna come close to doing it without the manual), then YES, this remote is SIMPLE TO USE (once it is programed), and he would DEFINITELY find it MUCH simpler to use it than a single remote for each of his devices.

nathan104 wrote:Will it learn the code from my car alarm keyfob and my garage door opener? I want to use it for everything...

llo.. actually with another device this might be programmable to control electrical switches and outlets - all what x10 is for me which is where I got my first one similar to this (It is the REAL Icon Remote)..

gthrow wrote:That's for real!

It's what I'm here for.

If you want to further enhance your custom labelling experience, you can get creative. How?

Well, instead of the logo for the "O" channel you can make a label that has a little picture of Oprah's smiling face. For Comedy Central, how about Jon Stewart or those crazy kids from South Park?

grauler wrote:But is there a sticker for C-SPAN 3 Included?

Well, they state "logos for many of the most popular networks". However, if you watch C-SPAN 3, the word "popular" probably doesn't apply to you.

carlitozway wrote:I'm guessing this won't change the source on tv automatically right? That is, if Cable is HDMI1 and the Xbox is Component 1 on the tv, when I switch from one to the other it won't switch the source. Rather it will allow me to have just one remote that will both allow me to change the source and change the channel on the cable box, but manually...

...right?

huh?

I'd only be interested in this if it would take on the duties of my TiVo remote, but in that list of devices, "DVR" is not listed!

Would anyone know if this can be programmed for TiVos?

JohnnyLemonhead wrote:So you put someone on probation because they express positive feeling about wooting for the first time? Wow......genius marketing and customer service right there. Pure genius. They should teach this in business school.

llo

Sad, BUT TRUE! Hell, Google, PayPal, et al., didn't even exist a decade ago, and now they are dictating management and bus. text books used in Harvard's MBA curriculum, and it's ALL NEW PRINCIPLES, "new" being things the business field would have found absolutely ludicrous 20 yrs ago.

will this work with the DTV boxes?

Most of the 'universal' remote controls I've had recently didn't have my codes so I had to use 'codesearch' where you have to press a button many times until it hits the right code. Does anyone know if this has that feature? if so I am so in fer 3.

p.s. the learning remotes are the best for taming a table full of remotes but they are usually MUCH more expensive. the last one I bought was $100. aw heck, I just talked myself into 3. I can't believe this price.

Looks pretty nice. Too bad the channels they have pasted on their remind me why I stopped watching TV 8 years ago.