Logitech's aboriginal new accepted limited in a year, the $250 Harmony One, marries the glassy handheld grippiness of its skinnier Harmony models with the ability of its $500 bad-ass, the Harmony 1000.
The Goods: The capacitive-touch 2.2" blush awning is advised to acknowledge bound and accurately to your taps, while the ergonomically set concrete buttons should accommodated your accepted needs after you accepting to attending down from your show. Like its predecessors, it uses an online database of 225,000 articles to set up after any annoying codes to bite in.
The Catch: It's got a rechargeable battery, which is acceptable for organized association but bad for absent types. Also, PS3s and added new articles can't be controlled with IR remotes, authoritative the "universal" appellation beneath accurate. Oh, and we're already accepting ailing of this accomplished "One" allotment scheme.
Logitech Harmony One Avant-garde Accepted Limited Introduces New Architecture with Full-Color Blow Screen, Automatic Button Layout
Winner of CES Innovations 2008 Architecture and Engineering Award
LAS VEGAS — CES - Jan. 5, 2008 — Today at the Chump Electronics Show, Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) apparent the Harmony® One avant-garde accepted limited control, appearance a cogent bound in the change of the acknowledged band of Harmony remotes. Offering the aforementioned one-touch, activity-based ascendancy as added Harmony remotes, the Harmony One makes authoritative home ball even easier with a full-color blow screen, an automatic button blueprint and an awfully adequate convenient design. The artefact has accustomed the CES 2008 Architecture and Engineering Award: Best of Innovations in Home-Entertainment Accessories.
As home-entertainment systems become added adult and complex, humans are generally balked and afflicted by the charge to accept assorted devices, the accepted call for ancestors associates to accept accounting instructions to ascendancy the arrangement (otherwise accepted as a bluff sheet) and the growing amount of remotes on the coffee table. And, according to industry research, added and added families will face this problem. IMS Research's report, "The Future of High-Definition TV - 2007 Edition," forecasts able accepted advance for HDTV over the next four years (nearly 148 actor HDTV households by 2011). And in the U.S. alone, chump spending on digital-living articles is on clue to hit $300 billion in 2010 (Parks Associates, "Digital Active Forecast," Dec. 2006).
"The Harmony avant-garde accepted remotes accept been awful acknowledged at accouterment easy, one-touch admission to admired activities, such as watching TV, arena a video game, or alert to music - all with a individual remote," said Ashish Arora, carnality admiral and accepted administrator of Logitech's Harmony business unit. "To added advance our lineup, while developing Harmony One, we approved to carefully accept the alternation amid people, their remotes, and their ball systems. In fact, Harmony One is the aftereffect of our a lot of absolute analysis and development adventure anytime - added than 20,000 hours."
A key aftereffect of Logitech's analysis is a 2.2-inch blush touch-screen that uses capacitive technology, which responds to tiny electrical accuse from the fingertips. Capacitive touch-screen technology is added durable, compared to blow screens that acknowledge to pressure. The blush blow awning provides ascendancy of any home ball accessory with an bittersweet receiver, including agenda video recorders, high-definition televisions and abounding domiciliary appliances. The Harmony One remote's blow awning can aswell affectation icons of defined TV stations for quick admission to admired stations.
Based on a chump survey, Logitech aswell bent that it could advance its customers' acquaintance with the Harmony limited by creating a added automatic button layout. For bigger affluence of use, the Harmony One limited provides an able and automatic button blueprint disconnected into four audible zones (numbers; acceptable DVD controls; D-pad with aggregate and approach up/down; and on-screen card buttons) for seamless ascendancy of today's a lot of accepted home ball devices. Abandoned the 40 most-essential buttons arise on the Harmony One limited - so humans can acquisition the adapted one quickly. Anniversary button is alone sculpted, accouterment advantageous concrete cues so humans can accomplish the limited by touch, rather than relying on sight.
To bigger abode ergonomics, the Harmony One limited appearance a curved, awfully adequate appearance that is simple for anyone in the ancestors to hold, behindhand of duke size. Presenting an affected piano-black top and a argent base, and atramentous buttons with white backlighting, Harmony One is the absolute accompaniment for any active room. And the rechargeable remote's recharging base has a glassy contour with an adjustable ablaze that makes it simple to find, even in the dark.
In accession to its optimized design, the Harmony One delivers the acclaimed allowances accepted to the Harmony ancestors of accepted remotes, including its absolute one-touch activity-based ascendancy arrangement powered by the world's better A/V-control database of ball equipment, guided online bureaucracy and adult blast support.
The Change of One-Touch Action Control
Using the Harmony One blush blow screen, humans artlessly blow the adapted action button and the Harmony One limited does the rest, including axis on the adapted apparatus in the adapted adjustment and ambience the actual inputs. To watch a DVD, for example, humans artlessly blow "Watch a DVD" on the blow screen. The Harmony One limited turns on the TV, the DVD player, and the A/V receiver. Then, if necessary, the Harmony One limited allows humans to acclimatize the aggregate on the stereo system. There's no charge to ascendancy apparatus alone - the Harmony One limited manages everything. And the Harmony One limited even provides alternate on-screen advice if something interferes with an IR command (for example, if anyone walks in foreground of the set-top box).
Patented Smart Accompaniment Technology
Patented Smart Accompaniment Technology® enables the Harmony One limited to bear activity-based control. Smart Accompaniment Technology allows the limited to clue the ability accompaniment and ascribe ambience of the assorted apparatus it controls. With this technology, Harmony limited users can calmly about-face amid watching home amphitheater and alert to music by selecting a individual action button.
Guided Online Setup
Logitech's Internet-based bureaucracy makes accepting the Harmony One up and active as simple as possible. With its automatic bureaucracy astrologer allegorical the process, the Harmony One online interface allows humans to access their components' accomplish and archetypal numbers. Then, this advice is automatically akin to the characteristics, detached codes and bittersweet commands of the added than 225,000 accessories from added than 5,000 manufacturers (updated about daily) independent in Logitech's online database. Any accessories that don't bout can be added application the online system, and the bureaucracy action lets humans add the ascendancy signals from the aboriginal device's limited ascendancy to the Harmony One remote. When humans wish to add a accessory to their active room, they can be assured that the Harmony One limited can ascendancy it - today and tomorrow.
Pricing and Availability
The Harmony One is accepted to be accessible in the U.S. and Europe alpha in February for a appropriate retail amount of $249.99 (U.S.). The Harmony One will be showcased in the Logitech CES berth (No. 35512, South Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center).
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