One of the things that has been cluttering our living room it seems like forever are our multiple remote controls. It seems like they reproduce on their own... We used to have them in on small box - now we have 2 medium sized boxes that they barely fit in - they are taking over our living room.

We just got a flat screen LCD TV as a Christmas present to ourselves , and the guy we had over to install it recommended a new universal remote control called a Harmony. He also said I could get it for under $100! I was skeptical that anything under one hundred dollars, especially a universal remote, could really be that good. After all, I've had a universal remote for years - and it just gathers dust in my remote bucket - it's more difficult to use that than the three or four individual ones it is supposed to replace. Against my better judgement, I decided to give it a go... I could always return it.

Well since it arrived on Friday, this thing has changed my life! The only thing you have to know is the make and model of all your components... You connect it to your computer via USB cable and presto chango, it's completely programmed. It is so totally easy to use... you push a button for an activity like watching TV, and it turns on all the correct components. You can control anything in your system easily - from the volume to pause and rewind on your DVR. It really is very simple to use (and I got one of the most inexpensive ones... they make others that are much more expensive and supposedly even easier to use.

One note about price - I would do a google search for the one you want - you can find a pretty good price that's definitely well below the suggested retail price listed on the Logitech site.

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