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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It works, but .. ., May 16, 2006
I bought this when my TV's remote finally died. I checked to be sure it would work with my 14-year-old Magnavox TV, satellite TV box and fairly old Phillips VCR. It works, but the buttons don't exactly line up. It took some work to figure it out, for example, the sleep setting on my TV works with the "Quit" button on the remote, not the "sleep" button. The fast forward, rewind, play and stop buttons on the remote do nothing for the VCR, but the buttons in one of the circles do the trick. For the low cost, I didn't mind too much the fact that I had to figure out what button did what, and I followed the set up directions to a T, *three times* thinking I had goofed it. It's taken plenty of falls, been chewed on by my baby, slept on, dropped, lost and stepped on, and it's still working perfectly.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
No Eject Button, May 31, 2006
My elation at no longer needing to do the remote control dance between my JVC television, my Samsung DVD recorder, and my Panasonic VCR came to a screeching halt when I realized I no longer had an eject button for my VCR and DVD-R. Shucks! Now I have to get up and go up to them, feel around for the eject button. If I have to get up and do that, why even have a remote?! (I know, that sounds lazy, doesn't it?) I'll see if I'm able to get used to not having them spit out the tape or DVD first before I go to it to take it out.
Programming was frustrating but not impossible. The key is to just put in the codes yourself rather than letting the remote try and find it. That's a headache. The pamphlet they put inside the manual was really all I needed, and the easiest way to program was just to trial-and-error the codes myself instead of trying several times to get the remote to find it on its own. (Some model TVs, like JVC and Panasonic, have several codes you have to try before it takes. I got lucky in that the first number I tried was the right one!)
I also must note that although I bought the PM435S, mine looks nothing like the one they show here. Mine has large, blue, easily-seen number keys and large blue buttons for ± vol and ±channel, and large blue buttons for the main DVD functions. There is only one set of directional keys, not two as shown, and all other keys are translucent but don't have backlighting.
For what this remote cost, the lack of an eject button isn't a huge issue, but I still wish it had one. The remote doesn't have lighted keys, either. It does, however, fit nicely in my hand, even if it is rather large. And most importantly, it works! I can turn the TV on and off, switch to input/video, turn the volume up and down, change channels, turn the DVD recorder on and off, go to the menu, set the timer record, and the play/pause buttons work. What else do I need? To my mind, since this does work so well, I can't justify paying upwards of $200 for a remote, because I can't imagine what else the expensive ones would do better. I'd pay $10 extra tops for backlit keys and an eject button, but that's the limit.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a terrific low cost universal remote, February 21, 2005
I am astounded at how well this works. I have a JVC TV, a Sharp VCR, a Panasonic DVD and a 13 year old Yamaha Home Stereo (yes, it works on this as well, I simply used the CBL/SAT button and got it to work). For 8 dollars you can't go wrong.
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