Customer Rating: 
Summary: After a little confusion it works great.
Comment: The biggest thing that made all the difference for my application was that the remote extender (UFO looking device) needed to be located a couple feet away from the device I was intending to control.
I have my cable box in a closet behind my TV. Originally I had the UFO device on the same shelf as the cable box (very similar to the video shown in another review). Because my shelf is small and compact the UFO device was too close to the cable box. As soon as I pulled the UFO device further away, it has been working perfectly ever since.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It Will Pay For Itself !!!
Comment: Let me give you some background why I went looking for this product. As a Comcast customer you need to rent their boxes besides paying their monthly subscription fees. I kept watching the cost for renting this box go up and up to the point of it now costing $16.00 a month. Our family usually only watches one TV at a time but yet we like all the channels on every TV so in order to get all the channels offered through your subscription you have to have one of these boxes on each TV. This can add up if you have a lot of TV's. Frankly I got tired of it and bought a component splitter like this one available at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/AV-400COMP-High-Performance-Component-Distribution/dp/B0009QW4MM/ref=pd_cp_e_2_img
and ran the video from one cable box to multiple TV's. Then with this very cool product I can control the single cable box from any TV that the splitter is hooked up to. Extra Comcast remotes can be bought for $20.00 at the local Comcast office. Make sure you get a new remote in a sealed bag as the refurb ones usually don't work. Now program the remote from Comcast to the TV you are using in each room. Also label the remote so you know which room it belongs in, in case it gets moved. In a few months the product will pay for itself saving the cable box rental fees. The other advantage with this idea is that you get rid of that big ugly, where that heck do you put it Comcast box. Why ugly up that beautiful flat panel TV with that clunky box. Now all you have are the cables going directly into the TV. You can run 150 feet max from the splitter to each TV. If your distances are greater or you don't want to run 5 coax cables (3 for video and 2 for audio), video baluns
http://www.hometech.com/hts/products/video/baluns/index.html
will convert the coaxes to a single cat5 that can go 300 feet! Don't get hung up on the fact that this is only component video and your TV is a 1080P. Comast HD is only 720P anyway and looks great with this distribution method. As I said earlier this idea will work if you can all agree to watch the same programming on all the TV's. Keep in mind you will need to buy the extra transmitters in the battery case from Next Gen, one for each TV but once again they will pay for themselves.
Have fun saving money!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Device
Comment: Next Generation Remote Control Extender This is without a doubt one of the neatest gadgets I've seen in my 91 years.In our bedroom, my wife and I each have our own TV's with headsets in order to watch our individual program selections, but there was a problem. We each had a box with a remote supplied by the cable company and the IR signals were the same.This meant that no matter where the remote was pointed when one of us attempted to change to another chanel, it would change the other guy's chanel also. None of the three TV services could come up with a solution. A search on the internet turned up "Next Generation Remote Control Extender" and "Voila", the problem was solved for about $50.00. Manufacturer's assistance has been superb.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shockingly Good for the $
Comment: This thing is so clever. It works with my universal remote, controlling 4 pieces of ugly equipment that are now hidden in a closet. Even works from the backyard so that I can play music during BBQs and such. I would have paid much more for this level of ease and functionality. Breakthrough product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of those things you forget about because it works so well
Comment: This is one of those items you install and forget about. This thing works so well. I have had it about a year now and it has been flawless. I moved my stuff around today and was like "Oh, thats right- I am sending this signal through the wall, and this is the thing that does it". My equipment is behind the TV which is hung on the wall. The signal goes across my room, through the TV, the wall, and then through the equipment! Anyway, it works, and very well. There is no lag time or delay.
Summary: After a little confusion it works great.
Comment: The biggest thing that made all the difference for my application was that the remote extender (UFO looking device) needed to be located a couple feet away from the device I was intending to control.
I have my cable box in a closet behind my TV. Originally I had the UFO device on the same shelf as the cable box (very similar to the video shown in another review). Because my shelf is small and compact the UFO device was too close to the cable box. As soon as I pulled the UFO device further away, it has been working perfectly ever since.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It Will Pay For Itself !!!
Comment: Let me give you some background why I went looking for this product. As a Comcast customer you need to rent their boxes besides paying their monthly subscription fees. I kept watching the cost for renting this box go up and up to the point of it now costing $16.00 a month. Our family usually only watches one TV at a time but yet we like all the channels on every TV so in order to get all the channels offered through your subscription you have to have one of these boxes on each TV. This can add up if you have a lot of TV's. Frankly I got tired of it and bought a component splitter like this one available at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/AV-400COMP-High-Performance-Component-Distribution/dp/B0009QW4MM/ref=pd_cp_e_2_img
and ran the video from one cable box to multiple TV's. Then with this very cool product I can control the single cable box from any TV that the splitter is hooked up to. Extra Comcast remotes can be bought for $20.00 at the local Comcast office. Make sure you get a new remote in a sealed bag as the refurb ones usually don't work. Now program the remote from Comcast to the TV you are using in each room. Also label the remote so you know which room it belongs in, in case it gets moved. In a few months the product will pay for itself saving the cable box rental fees. The other advantage with this idea is that you get rid of that big ugly, where that heck do you put it Comcast box. Why ugly up that beautiful flat panel TV with that clunky box. Now all you have are the cables going directly into the TV. You can run 150 feet max from the splitter to each TV. If your distances are greater or you don't want to run 5 coax cables (3 for video and 2 for audio), video baluns
http://www.hometech.com/hts/products/video/baluns/index.html
will convert the coaxes to a single cat5 that can go 300 feet! Don't get hung up on the fact that this is only component video and your TV is a 1080P. Comast HD is only 720P anyway and looks great with this distribution method. As I said earlier this idea will work if you can all agree to watch the same programming on all the TV's. Keep in mind you will need to buy the extra transmitters in the battery case from Next Gen, one for each TV but once again they will pay for themselves.
Have fun saving money!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Device
Comment: Next Generation Remote Control Extender This is without a doubt one of the neatest gadgets I've seen in my 91 years.In our bedroom, my wife and I each have our own TV's with headsets in order to watch our individual program selections, but there was a problem. We each had a box with a remote supplied by the cable company and the IR signals were the same.This meant that no matter where the remote was pointed when one of us attempted to change to another chanel, it would change the other guy's chanel also. None of the three TV services could come up with a solution. A search on the internet turned up "Next Generation Remote Control Extender" and "Voila", the problem was solved for about $50.00. Manufacturer's assistance has been superb.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shockingly Good for the $
Comment: This thing is so clever. It works with my universal remote, controlling 4 pieces of ugly equipment that are now hidden in a closet. Even works from the backyard so that I can play music during BBQs and such. I would have paid much more for this level of ease and functionality. Breakthrough product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of those things you forget about because it works so well
Comment: This is one of those items you install and forget about. This thing works so well. I have had it about a year now and it has been flawless. I moved my stuff around today and was like "Oh, thats right- I am sending this signal through the wall, and this is the thing that does it". My equipment is behind the TV which is hung on the wall. The signal goes across my room, through the TV, the wall, and then through the equipment! Anyway, it works, and very well. There is no lag time or delay.
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