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Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann
What sort? As it is, I think my room has a Verizon cable box, my HDTV, my Blu-Ray player...and the room's pretty small. What sort of range and operation angle does it need?
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By line of site I mean for instance if you are trying to turn the TV on for cable, it needs to be able to see the tv, the cable box, and the sound system (if you have one) head on when you point it at TV and you need to hold the remote up for several seconds. (and I have nothing walled off or in a cabinet, 90% of the time I was within 5-7 feet of my system)
The $70 one I was suggesting you can have it in your pocket or under a blanket and it will work no matter what. and you can click it once and just do other stuff in mean time while it all boots up.
Also while most people push off the smartphone tablet app at first (like me) you end up using it alot more since you can set up a favorite channel list for cable tv and just it the channel icon for it to switch and have it programmed to the HD channels so you don't have to go hunting for them or remember the HD channel #s.
Some official cable boxes auto switch to HD, mine does not sadly since I use a cable card and a samsung box I personally bought so that I would only have to pay $4 rental fee for the card vs, a $15 one for their box. But with my new remote I don't really care plus it plays media from my USB which is a plus for home videos and pics
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The one nice thing about 650 is that you can key over into device specific remote to get at functions not on the main keys and access them via the screen interface, you can do the same with the $70 system, but you need to use a smartphone or tablet to get that interface you cant do it via the given remote.