Greatest Remote Ever

We've been through our share of universal remotes over the years and none of them ever completely satisfied me or had a sufficiently high WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). There was always that one device they didn't quite control, or they were too big, or sucked batteries, or the button labels made no sense, or any of a million other problems. No more. The whole family, wife and six year old included love the Logitech Harmony 880.  The best thing about it is the setup. You install some software, tell it the make and model of all your components (TV, receiver, cable box, etc) and provide some information about how they are hooked together. Once you've done that you just connect the remote to your computer via the included USB cable and the programming is handled for you. The remote uses what are called "activities" to set everything up. For example our remote has 4 activities: Watch Television, Listen to Music, Watch a Movie, and Play Video Games. You pick an activity and the remote handles all the on/off and input selection. It's great. An added bonus is the included recharging station that the remote sits in when not in use. Now before you go looking it up, no, I didn't pay retail ($249.99) for it, that's a little more than I can justify for a remote control. Amazon has factory reconditioned models here for $99. So far ours has worked great.