Sky Sony Universal Learning Remote

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Posted on 17 / 09 / 2006

It's sony and is by far the cheapest universal remote out there on the market.
Usability.

The man of the house may understand it but everyone else you share a house with will be left scratching their heads. This will usually result with them standing up and manually pressing the buttons on the machine. Suitable for a loner or a house of techy geeks. Your grandma and elderly relatives will be left thinking wtf.

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Posted on 29 / 09 / 2006

Cuts down on a pile of remotes. Inexpensive
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Will take a few hours to setup and learn all the intricacies of the technology. It comes with a manual with a tables of codes for hundreds of hifi, tv, dvd, vcr devices. All you need to do is match your devices upto the correct codes, if you run into problems you can use a handy search code function. The time consuming parts occurs when the 'Sony' remote misses an important function such as 'open tray' for a dvd player. This is where the 'learning' part of the universal remote comes into play, you press the 'learn' button on the 'Sony' remote and then press the 'open tray' button on your dvd remote (while facing the 'Sony' remote). I cannot argue at £25 either. I had seven remotes for my tv, hifi separates, dvd player, home cinema kit which created a real mess for my living room table. It also saves time and annoyance when you have to pick up three different remotes just to play a dvd.

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User Name - Paul Barwick

Posted on 12 / 04 / 2007

Does it all and is shockingly inexpensive.
Nothing.

The layout and amount of buttons are not OTT. The manual is fairly easy to understand and the setup instructions are as simple as possible for something which is quite complicated. Once everyone understands it you'll be over the moon with your £25 investment.

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