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(More customer reviews)Opened the package and loved it immediately. Well, as soon as immediate gets, after having spent 5 minutes overcoming the nearly bullet-proof marketing packaging that is designed to resist professional safe crackers.
OK, what a cool design. The remote nests easily into the horizontal recharging station, which itself has a very cool blue 'continuity' light which indicates it's plugged in. The wall-wart is slim and oriented so it can fit into just one space of a multiple outlet strip. Also very cool.
The back lighting is gorgeous, the size and weight is just right. The buttons feel good. It lights up when you move it and can operate while charging. Wow, huh?
My AV system currently has eight remotes, and I was looking forward to getting it down to just one like you might imagine. And buoyed by the positive reviews here, I was (yes was) set to hop into remote nirvana ASAP. Last night I let the battery charge overnight, got all the equipment model numbers written down in the meantime, and woke up today ready to get 'er done! WooHoo!
Meh.
After creating the on-line ID, and listing the gear and model numbers, things started to veer off the pathway to joy. I started to discover that the Monster on-line configuration application would insist on keeping some basic settings, like:
("which input does your VCR use when playing a tape?" --What do you mean which input does it use? It doesn't use any inputs, for playback they're all outputs... Maybe they mean the receiver? ...no they didn't, but it's too late now, the VCR is now associated with a VCR2 input that is actually on the back of the Denon 2708 receiver, whoops you can't change it now!) Wah-wah. Onward!
So, it got worse. After setting up the "Activities" which as other reviewers have said, are macros for equipment sets and inputs, into the AV room we go with our Monster 100 Light Saber, ready to take on Darth Boredom and throw out those evil remotes. Heh, well, not so fast.
Turning on the DVD player was good, but when checking out the hard-wired buttons (the ones grouped together in the square with the central select joystick-button in it's center) I realized that the Next Chapter >>| Last Chapter || and |>| and |
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MODEL NO. AV100 CONTROLS & INTEGRATES UP TO 15 A/V COMPONENTS 1-TOUCH ACTIVITY BASED CONTROL OF A/V COMPONENTS 2.3" COLOR DISPLAY WITH CUSTOMIZABLE BACKGROUNDS WIDE FIELD INFRARED CAPABILITY FOR MAXIMUM A/V CONTROL RANGE & FLEXIBILITY SIMPLE 1-STEP SETUP PROCESS FOR COMPONENTS DEDICATED PICTURE BUTTON PROVIDES SMART PICTURE-IN-PICTURE FUNCTION & OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR ASPECT RATIO DEDICATED SMART SURROUND BUTTON MAPS CORRECT SOUND MODES FOR A/V & LIFESTYLE ACTIVITIES EASY WEB-BASED SETUP WITH PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL MACRO PROGRAMMING INCLUDES CHARGING CRADLE WITH RECHARGEABLE LI-ION BATTERY FOR LONGER-LASTING POWER DIM: 11.34"H X 8.25"W X 3.2"D
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