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URC MasterControl RF30 Universal Learning Remote w/ RF Capability Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: URC MasterControl RF30 - Excellent
Comment: I was quoted $399 and $349 dollars for an RF universal remote control with setup from my local Home Theater company. So I did some search on the web and found this control on Amazon for around $70 and purchased it. It was very easy to configure, it recognized all my components on the first try. The user's guide had very easy step-by-step instructions to setup the most common Power On/Off Macros and I only had to customize a few items, which was very easy. This was an excellent purchase, great bang for you buck.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: One remote to rule them all! Works for me.
Comment: I bought this to replace my logitech harmony 628 remote. I was surprisingly impressed on how well I was able to do it on a rf remote under $100 (or even $60). Plus in the future, I will rewire and split the satellite from the living room to the bedroom where the RF feature will come in handy.

The customizable 8 touch-screen buttons makes it possible for me to use this universal remote.

Being able to have 5 pages of the 8 touch screen buttons for each components, makes it possible to add those unique buttons that are not on each kind of remotes.

I only have 4 devices: a tv, dvd player, hddvd player, directv sat. I set each "first page" of the non-tv with a "tv source" and "tv power" button. Such that, I can turn on/off the tv without having to go back to the TV commands in the menu.

pros:
cost, highly-customizable
menus are very simple: main->components (8 buttons per component on each page with 2 pages)->sub-pages (8 customizable buttons one each page; up to 5 pages).

cons:
the light button is amber - red, I am more used to blue from my other remote

cannot increase or decrease the "Main" pages. I want to hide the second page of components because I only use 4 right now, however, it is no big deal. I would also like to be able to add another 8, 16, 24, etc devices--but seriously, I do not have more than 10 devices in any room.

I currently do not know if I can copy a component to a different slot. I have wanted to change the layout and rearrange the components on the Main page, and having to re-learn some remotes makes it time consuming.

there is a max of 5 characters for each custom button label. (not really a big deal, you generally can abbreviate what you need.)

I would have liked a computer interface like the logitech's or something so I can edit the menus a little easier. But, the edit menus in this one is easy to use.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: So far so good
Comment: So far so good. I received the item quickly and have not had the time to configure it. Just this past weekend I started to configure it and so far so good. Working on the Macro part of it and I am sure it will be simple once doing it a few times. It is not as fancy looking as the3 Logitech remotes, but for the price you cannot compare.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Remote
Comment: Sturdy, good layout, well lit, very flexible. Takes a little while to program. RF works very well

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Customer Rating:
Summary: UNIVERSAL REMOTE
Comment: I have owned 5 different universal remotes in the past. This is the best hands down, very easy to program,it is RF & IR so you can use it anywhere. The other remotes I have used were hard to program and they always ran out of memory. I have 5 amplifiers, DVD changer, XM and a dish satalite reciever all in the RF30 and it still has room for more.
BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK

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