Thursday, March 23. 2006Harmony indeed
Another classic smooth easy to use remote control, this time from Logitech. They call it "Harmony Advanced", I call it "What the fuck is this thing in my hand?"
50 buttons, pretty impressive stuff. What does it do? It controls your television, and your XBox. For that, it even has its own inbuilt screen, because they wanted to make it extra easy. The website boasts Easy to Use, Easy to access our advanced help menu. Something slighly wrong with that statement, why do you need both those features? What the hell is "advanced help"? To be fair, I should point out that this is capable of replacing your television remote control too, so I guess that explains some of the complexity in the design. It's a cause, certainly not an excuse. Trackbacks
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A help screen for a remote control? It has to make things easier!
Huh? What do you say? Removing controls? Nah, it will make things harder and we want it easy. Easy for us, that is. With less controls we'll need to be smarter on how to make it easy.
OK, when a remote control needs a help function is it NOT easy to use! That is just insane. If it needs a screen to give you instructions on it is FAR FAR too complicated. Also, you use this remote to control stuff on your telly, what's wrong with the classic model where remotes use the telly to give you feedback?
Less is more and more is most certainly less, hence, this thing with it's own built in screen must really suck!
Well to be fair, its programmable for all televisions, so it would be very tricky to tell the telly to give the feedback.
Not that I want to defend this monstrosity or anything. |
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