# How useful are universal remotes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-useful-are-universal-remotes/534494>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-useful-are-universal-remotes/534494 "2010-03-31T20:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-useful-are-universal-remotes/534494/41 "2010-04-06T00:49:06Z")

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I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but I have a Logitech Harmony remote and I absolute love it! 😃

Seriously though, it is simply amazing. And I have an 880 model so there are buttons corresponding to the functions. I could do everything by feel, but I generally choose not to. Of course, the Stop/Play/FastForward/Etc functions are all normal physical buttons on my model. I’m not sure if the newer models have touch screens or not.

Oh, and I have a Mac so as mentioned above, setup works just fine.

Just last month I replaced my DVD player with a Sony Blu-Ray. I don’t think it took me longer than 2 minutes to update the Harmony setup and have it working.

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