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URC R6 Learning Remote Control Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Can't beat it for the price
Comment: I purchased this last week from Best Buy. I was a little reluctant at first because the packaging looked a little cheesy. But having checked out various reviews I decided to give it a go. I was planning on buying one of the Harmony series but I said "Its just a remote ...someone has to have one that will accomidate 90% of my functions needed , if not 100% without paying an arm and a leg."
Anyway my main reason for buying it was because my remote to my Onkyo hts has been on the fritz and like half of the country I was tired of juggling remotes.

Far as programming read the manual carefully first to get the jist of how everything works and how to program your 'macro' settings. After that all is great. I thought I came to problem programming a Manavox DVD/VCR but I belive I used two different codes even though it is the same unit. For the basic On/Off on the Onkyo hts progamming was ok but far as changes with with radio stations I set the macro setting by holding the old remote face to face . I belive I did the same trick for changing hts setting like 'neo ceniema' or 'dts music' or 'all speaker' etc...

So far it seem to be working well. Will keep you posted. I didn't give it five stars because the buttons are not backlit ;)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: BEST BUTTON LAYOUT AMONG LEARNING REMOTES
Comment: I've had this remote for two weeks and I'm very happy with its performance. I was sold on this remote by its logical layout of buttons and the fact that it is a learning remote. Other reviewers have pointed out that it has a finite number of learning-buttons it can learn to its memory (40 according to the company's website universalremote.com). For those who are able to successfully use the pre-programmed codes for all or most of their components, I think that the majority of people will find the limit of 40 learning-buttons adequate. (I'm happy to use the original remotes for rarely used esoteric tasks, if necessary.)

Note that the 4 "My Favorites" buttons can be used as macro buttons (to punch in your favorite channel numbers for example) or they can be used as simple "nonmacro" learning-buttons.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Universal Remote!!!
Comment: This is a high quality and versatile remote. I purchased it on Wal-Mart for $20 and I am very happy with my purchase. It will control most of the functions on your devices.

PROS:
High quality feel
It is made out of good quality plastic and the buttons have a nice feedback. The device keys light up when pressed. Clean design and layout.

Easy to program
I use it to control the main functions on my TV, DVD, Home Theater and Cable Box. The basic device functions worked after punching a 3 digit code listed on the manual. I had to program the rest by placing the original remote in front and following simple instructions. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. The remote will not loose your setup if you remove the batteries.

Macros
It can be programmed to run a set of instructions by pressing only one button. For e.g. with the click of one button turn on the TV, Stereo and Cable Box.

CONS:
Don't expect it to control every single function on all of your electronics because it does not have all the buttons or enough memory to do so. You will need to purchase a more expensive remote to have this capability.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Be aware - limited memory for learning
Comment: I was really excited about getting this remote because it was a decent price, looked good, and had the ability to learn functions for remotes that weren't coded in. I'm tired of the pile of remotes I have on my coffee table, and I wanted to be able to store them away while I had a single remote do most of what I needed.

Unfortunately it's not listed anywhere in the specs that I could find, but the memory on board is only good for about 30-40 buttons. I have a few devices that either had no codes available, or didn't have all of the commands listed. This includes my Samsung DLP, my Samsung HT system, and my DVR, none of which had full command sets pre-programmed in, so all of them needed to have the commands added through the learning function.

I only bothered to have the R6 learn the commands I actually used on the remotes, but even before I was half way through programming the codes for my home theater system, the component button would just flash an error command.

I dug around online to figure out what the problem was and finally found the 30-40 button limitation not listed on Amazon's site. 30-40 buttons is not enough to program in more than one or two incomplete or non-existent remote profiles.

If you're not sure this remote will have all of the codes you need in order to use it on all your devices, look into the R5 or R7 models instead, which are listed at URC's website as having memory for up to 160 commands. I'll be returning this and looking for another learning remote.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: this universal control is garbage
Comment: This universal control has limits to learn command. I want to clonar 4 original controls and only could clonar one.

The Sony RM-VL600 8-Device Universal Learning Remote it is far better. This control learn the functions of five original controls of my devices and it has much reach

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