Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...

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From budget to premium, these universal remotes will streamline your home entertainment with easy setup, wide compatibility, and intuitive control.

If there can be a king of remote controls, it's the Logitech Harmony Companion. This universal remote is not just able to tame the many devices living within your media center but also capable of ...

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Remote controls help us manage various electronics around our homes, from gaming controllers to controls for TVs, ceiling fans, and other household gadgets. However, they're often overlooked when it ...

Harmony's awesome remote controls come with one big limitation: how many devices they can command. That limit is arbitrary. Here's how to circumvent it. David leads the editorial team at CNET. We ...

In German households, they are everywhere–on average, four to six per home. Overall, more than 150 million remote controls are estimated to be in circulation, according to GFU Consumer & Home ...

YOUR Sky TV remote probably has a few tricks you didn’t know about. We reveal some of the hidden meanings behind lesser-used Sky buttons. There are two types: one with buttons on the circle, and one ...