A greater array of basic commands was available on screen. This one, too, I used on its own and found that for normal viewing I could control everything relatively easily with the one remote.
On the Harmony, all the hard buttons were perfectly backlit. The Harmony, too, offers an RF communication system at a separate charge and can be configured to control lighting – again after buying some additional equipment. With that, I cannot understand why anyone would buy the Monster. The Harmony had a much more open, pleasing and easy to use feel than the Monster, and the price is exactly the same: $499.95. The macros turn everything on (and off) just as they should, and most of the commands for basic viewing are either among the hard buttons, on the opening screen or just one screen away. The screen is large enough that it does not look crowded. buttons, while other controls along the side of the touch screen and in all four corners allow you to call up other menus, like a numerical keypad. Once set up, it turned out that for most functions the Harmony displays a graphically pleasing suite of basic commands: Play, stop, pause, fast-forward, etc.
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But the software is the same, so all the benefits and liabilities of the Monster program apply to this one, too, including the ease of setup and ability change components easily. Well, I called Harmony, and it turned out that Logitech makes the remote for Monster – to Monster's specifications, of course. In any case, I installed the software and started to set up the remote when I noticed – Logitech-Harmony uses the same software as Monster. Why is it there? With all that empty space, one wonders, why not put in more hard controls? How about pause, or stop or menu? The Harmony remote looks neat and clean, but a good portion of the top area, perhaps one third, is empty. There's also a button to bring you back to the opening screen, and another to turn everything off.
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The Harmony's hard buttons are volume, channel, mute, go back one step, a four-way menu navigation control with "OK' in the middle, and separate left and right buttons. Unlike the Monster, the Harmony has very few "hard" buttons, as dedicated buttons built into the remote are called in the business. The remote itself is brushed aluminum with a black frame surrounding its 2.75 x 2-inch screen. This is a larger remote, more pleasing to look at because it has a large, bright, colorful LCD screen. Next I pulled out the Logitech Harmony 1000. But then, this is a weakness, more or less, of every universal remote.Īfter using the Monster for a week, I was more than ready to move on.
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To access all the other controls for the TV required scrolling through ten screens of commands.
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As for E, pushing it had no effect, and I never figured out what it was for. But the controls it threw onto its little screen when finished were just these three: "Fav," "aspect," and "E." The first two I understood. When I asked it to let me "watch TV," it turned on the TV, the cable box, the preamp and amp. For some components the Monster offered enigmatic controls.