So, what universal remote is the most intuitive, user friendly, and least likely to frustrate me into bouncing it off the wall? Well, actually I've never done that but I've felt like it. My only universal experience has been with cheap ones but now it's time to get something for the home theatre and it's going to need to be an RF remote and be something decent.
The equipment is behind the seating area mounted in a control closet facing into the theatre. Right now I have to turn around and point the IR remotes at the equipment. For the projector I have to get up and get in front of it. The only lighting control is on the wall.
Items to be controlled are...
Anthem D2 processor
Pioneer BDP-05FD Blu-ray
Possibly one additional disc player
Possible future cable, satellite, or off air tuner.
JVC HD1 projector
Overhead ceiling lights
Side wall lights.
Possibly control the floor step lights.
No motorized curtains or anything like that.
I do need to be able to control the video scaling on the D2 to adjust for various aspect ratios. I know the D2 can be set up with DVD1, DVD2...etc with each having different scaling settings but I suspect some of these remotes could also do something with macros so I can select from one of several aspect ratios and the macro will then command the D2 to go to what ever setting. However, I'm not sure how it would do that since it doesn't necessarily know the initial condition of the scaling and thus wouldn't know how to adjust it to a specified setting. Other than presetting the various DVD inputs on the D2 and then using the macro to select one of those it may not be possible?
The power amplifiers are already controlled by the trigger outputs of the D2. In fact, it may be able to also control the JVC projector but I haven't looked into that yet. Normally the only control over the projector I need is on/off.
The anamorphic lens is manually controlled and I doubt I will ever buy the remote upgrade so no need to worry about that.
As usual, I'm currently traveling for work so I will only be able to study this on line for now and can't take anything home to try. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
Monte
The equipment is behind the seating area mounted in a control closet facing into the theatre. Right now I have to turn around and point the IR remotes at the equipment. For the projector I have to get up and get in front of it. The only lighting control is on the wall.
Items to be controlled are...
Anthem D2 processor
Pioneer BDP-05FD Blu-ray
Possibly one additional disc player
Possible future cable, satellite, or off air tuner.
JVC HD1 projector
Overhead ceiling lights
Side wall lights.
Possibly control the floor step lights.
No motorized curtains or anything like that.
I do need to be able to control the video scaling on the D2 to adjust for various aspect ratios. I know the D2 can be set up with DVD1, DVD2...etc with each having different scaling settings but I suspect some of these remotes could also do something with macros so I can select from one of several aspect ratios and the macro will then command the D2 to go to what ever setting. However, I'm not sure how it would do that since it doesn't necessarily know the initial condition of the scaling and thus wouldn't know how to adjust it to a specified setting. Other than presetting the various DVD inputs on the D2 and then using the macro to select one of those it may not be possible?
The power amplifiers are already controlled by the trigger outputs of the D2. In fact, it may be able to also control the JVC projector but I haven't looked into that yet. Normally the only control over the projector I need is on/off.
The anamorphic lens is manually controlled and I doubt I will ever buy the remote upgrade so no need to worry about that.
As usual, I'm currently traveling for work so I will only be able to study this on line for now and can't take anything home to try. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
Monte