Next Generation Remote Control Extender
by Next Generation
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Customer Review: Easy and just works!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, what can I say. This product just works as advertised, and what is advertised is nothing short of amazing. Yeah, yeah, I know. IR to RF and back to IR is nothing earthshaking. But for something so reasonably priced to work so well and so neatly and deliver everything it promised is... refreshing!
I have a TV in every room but thanks to Comcast's pricing setup, I only have two cable box. So despite paying for digital (anything over channel 77) and premium channels, I only got the extra channels on TVs that had the cable box. Not anymore! Thanks to this product, I have access to digital and premiums on every room. All I had to do was run the coax out from the cable box to my video splitter in the utility room, and from there, to each TV in the house. All I have to remember is to take my remote with me, which is easy since the cable box in the basement is controlled by my universal anyway.
I understand that this may not work for everyone if more than one person wants to watch different programs. But I have basic cable connected to each TV and the other main TV has the other cable box (DVR) connected to it. For now, it's just me and my wife in the house so we have not run across any conflict.
One tiny smidgen of negative is the IR cable blaster doesn't seem to work well. I had to position it several times over the IR receptor to make it work. But I'm ready to blame the cable box for that since everything else on this product works so well.
Get it. This is a great product.
Customer Review: Buy this one.
Summary: 5 Stars
I just threw my 10x Powermid IR extender in the trash. Why? Because this one works better, and makes a lot more sense. I needed a thing like this because I wanted to hide my cable box and DVD player inside a cabinet. The Powermid product accomplished this, but left that ugly transmitter pyramid out in the open, and consumed a power outlet. I could have lived with that, but unless you point your remote straight at the pyramid, it doesn't work. Even if you do point straight at it, there is a noticeable (and very annoying) delay between when you push buttons on the remote, and when the commnads reach your components.
The NGHP ATH-433 worked like magic for me. No ugly stuff in view, no delay, and it doesn't matter where I point the remote. Inside the cabinet, the receiver communicates well with all of my components (I had to buy a transmitter for each remote. Or I could have purchased a universal remote). I didn't need this, but the receiver has a nice little remote emitter cable that plugs directly into the receiver and can be mounted directly to a component. The instructions show that there are versions of this cable that have two and three emitters. The cable that comes with it only has one, but again, I didn't need it.
The instructions are in chinaglish, but setup was easy. This is a smart product, and while it may be a little more expensive than some of the other gadgets out there, it was much less expensive than buying something that doesn't work and throwing it in the trash.
Customer Review: Great Product - Rotten Instructions
Summary: 5 Stars
An impressively innovative product that is actually simple to install, reasonably priced & best of all works really well. BUY, I almost rated the product 0 stars for the quality of the instructions. Not only is the English terrible, but even worse, important elements are missing. For example, an item from their web site FAQs ...
Can you charge the battery in the RF transmitter sleeve? Is that what the AAA size compartment in the bottom of the receiver is for?
Yes, you can. The smaller slot is for the battery alone, the AAA size is for the battery and transmitter together. Do NOT place a standard AAA battery in the slot. It may damage the charger. Both compartments are for the rechargeable batteries only.
Neither the description of the slots nor the warning are in the instructions. In looking at the slots, the natural instinct is to do exactly what they say might damage the unit!! I would have if I hadn't gone to their web site.
I recognize the difficulty in replacing instructions after manufacturing has begun, but that's still not a sufficient excuse nowadays. It would cost very little to have the instructions rewritten & put on the web site as a downloadable or displayable file.
Ok, instructions aside, if you want to have your components (Cable box, DVD, VCR, etc.) inside a cabinet with the doors closed, this is the product for you.
Customer Review: Works great EXCEPT with Harmony 650 remotes
Summary: 5 Stars
I decided to go with this "RF-izer" over a regular IR repeater to enable control of Zone 2 through our Denon AVR from our main floor (the AVR is located in a closet in our basement). We purchased an additional battery transmitter and were using this remote extender in both of our Denon remotes with absolutely no issues. The main remote, which was programmed to also control our TV and cable box (the latter also located in a closet in our basement), worked flawlessly with the battery transmitter and the UFO base located in the closet. The additional Denon remote also worked flawlessly to control the AVR from our main floor, about 40 feet from the UFO base (and between several walls and the floor).
While all was going well we decided to "improve" our setup by replacing the main Denon remote with a Logitech Harmony 650. To my utter disappointment, the remote extender will not work with the Harmony 650. I tried both battery positions and all 3 remote extender switch positions (A, B, and C) to no avail. I really wanted this setup to work so I spent several hours combing the web, only to find that no one has yet to make the 650 and the remote extender work together.
In summary, I'm keeping the remote extender because I really do love it, but am now resigned to also purchase an IR repeater because I really love the Harmony remote also.
I definitely recommend this product, as long as you are not going to try to use it with a Logitech Harmony 650.
Customer Review: Pleasantly Surprised
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this unit in December, I have a direct TV hd-dvr receiver, a high end late model Yamaha receiver (rx-v765 7.2), Panasonic plasma monitor, Panasonic dvd system, and a logitec harmony universal remote. I almost never write reviews unless something is so poorly designed/manufactured that I feel I should let people know about it, or it is of such high quality that I feel it should be endorsed. My TV is on the wall, I have all of the other components behind the doors of a solid wood cabinet and I needed a solution to control them all without direct line of site. This product was installed in less then 2 minutes once the batteries were charged, and has worked great ever since. I did not need to change any of the out-of-the-box settings, and it controls all of my devices. I did have to purchase the RF eye extenders, and I taped the eyes to the sensor on each of the devices in the cabinet. The batteries seem to last for at least a month per charge, and having the second battery ready to go in the unit is very convenient. The one thing I did find useful, (and it is probably due to either the shape of my cabinet or the type of paint), was turning the base UFI station transmitter eye away from any devices and point it directly into a side wall. For some reason, commands seemed to have issues and delays when the base station eye was near the components eyes. The extenders work great. When you consider the price of this device, and the ease of use, it is unbeatable.