Batterys last a long time. The remote will switch channels 200 feet from the rv. I like to watch tv outside of the motorhome. At home it works from every room and the garage. Great unit.

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I have had my uhf/ir remote since about 1997. It has traveled in an rv all over the US. Dusty, moist, dry conditions. It get a lot of use and has never failed. Our grandson gave it a drink of coke, which made the keys sluggish. I disassembled the unit,a simple task, washed the rubber keyboard and pc board in water, blew it dry and reassembled it. It works fine.

UHF, pretty solid

Doesn't do much for my VCR, poor battery life

Not sure what the last reviewer expected, but this is a small, $50 remote for Echostar, a TV, and a VCR. He compared it to a $400 Pronto. I got it with my Dish 4700. The UHF is great, operates the satellite from any room in my house. Sometimes you need to hold the remote in a certain direction (vertical mostly) from a far room. Great feel on the buttons. The batteries tend to come slightly loose inside and rattle, also, when the batteries wear down, control becomes erratic, esp. of my RCA TV. So I change the batteries before they are totally dead. Also, you can't change VCR channels with the keypad. Channel up/down works, but that's not perfect. It learned both the TVs and one VCR that I have tried to use it for. Basically, there are only 1 or 2 remotes right now that can operate these satellite receivers from another room by UHF, this is excellent for that.

Easy to use. The UHF feature is great for using multiple television sets with one Sat receiver, which can be located in any room in the house. I have had no problems with that aspect of the remote.

It was advertised as a universal remote, but it is not. I have tried several different brands of AV receivers, DVD players, and VCRs. It works with very few brands. It has not been supported by DishNetwork.

My three UHF remotes are about three years old. Two of them came with the DishNetwork (Echostar) receivers I purchased at that time. They work fine, except for controlling my
AV equipment. When I complained to DishNetwork that these "universal" remotes didn't work with major brands of AV equipment (Pioneer, Toshiba, Denon), they told me that no universal remote works on all brands, and that nothing could be done to rectify the problem. I laughed when they suggested I purchase new remotes to see if it would take care of the problem. I tried to explain what the word "universal" means, but it fell on deaf ears.

Due to the lack of support provided by DishNetwork for this remote, I would not buy the newer one and certainly can not recommend it to others.

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Do you live in an area where the local stations are available on both DirecTV and Dishnetwork? Are you trying to decide which satellite system to get for your easily confused parent or grandparent? Well, for me, this remote made that choice a no brainer. Get the Dishnetwork system. The "blue button" remote that will come with it is absolutely perfect for the older generation. That's because, with this remote, you can turn the TV on and adjust the volume even while you are in the satellite mode. This means that Granny will not have to change back and forth between satellite mode and TV mode. That's a gigantic plus because "mode changing" is usually what confuses her, and causes her to phone you up and ask you to come over and "fix" her TV/Satellite. If this is your problem, then you can go one step farther and absolutely grannyproof this remote by first, programming the remote to work with granny's brand of TV set, and then superglueing a cover over the TV mode button, VCR mode button, power button and TV/Video button. Of course this means that she'll have to use a separate remote for the VCR. But that's no problem...she rarely uses the VCR anyway.

The above mentioned TV on/off button is the button labeled Aux. It only works like that so long as you never program anything into the Aux mode. I you ever program the Aux mode to operate any device, then the Aux button will forever cease to function as the TV power button. And there's nothing that you can ever do to restore it to that function.

A "must have" for the older generation

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I know of no other UHF remote that works with a Dish receiver.

Ergonomic and versatile.

Electrically and mechanically unreliable.

I own the UHF/IR version of the Dish remote. I'm sorry to be a wet blanket here but I have been through 5 of these remotes since I bought my Dish system. They are unreliable and apt to fail when you need them. It is true they are not expensive so a replacement is no hardship. It seems that Dish could have made them more reliable. From what I have observed, the keyboard is some kind of magnetically coupled Hall effect device that needs perfect alignment between the sensors and the magnetics in the buttons. If anything gets between them the buttons fail. Also the electronics get squirrelly with time. I don't know what that's about. So in sum, be prepared to corner the remote market during the life of your Dish system. You will be buying a lot of replacements.

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ergonomically splendid, tactile with unique braile like characteristics to allow easy recognition without any visual cues, the buttons you use the most are where they should be!, you can control the basic functions of most of your home entertainment gear, channel recall, program info button, theme button, menu screen with pg scroll ability, 4? programmable favorites lists, parental control locks and personal pin codes, and if your vcr is'nt dbs compatible the auto-tune function allows you to tune programs you have selected for the timers menu, and of corse the really big one and one i'm very dissapointed is not offered on more expensive remotes even now in the year 2000: uhf control of the reciever!!! Please Marantz I beg you please make an rf controller before i die!

not an all in one type of remote like the pronto, or the rc2000, when you're in the menu section and you program a show into memory manually, you press cancel to get back to the place you left off and the remote takes you back to the current event time {minor quibble i know but very annoying}, not illuminated but does have color coded keys that reflect ambient light surprisingly well but really there are'nt enough buttons to get lost even in the dark, and one ? for that quirk i have'nt found yet

As you can probably tell by my above musings, i love this remote. It came with my dishnetwork reciever {i believe the model 3800} and it's worth the extra investment to step up to this wonderful wizard of technology. The splendid, ergonomically efficient design of the unit makes holding or placing on an arm rest just right. The buttons you use the most are where they should be. The layout of the keys is done in a manner that precludes one from having to lerch around like a lower level primate to find that one key you always use that just happens to be placed just this side of nowhere.
If you have a person in your family who is sightless, but still enjoys that great big box o' theater of the mind, this remotes tactile buttons are truly terrific. They have unique braile like characteristics that allow for easy recognition without visual cue. You can also program 5 favorites lists for every single one of your family members. This can be a great help, especially when that one family member-- the one that always complains about your particular preference of television viewing pleasure-- can have all those channels she would rather not stumble across completely eradicated from their exsistance.
The browse button is a channel surfers dream. The browser banners hover across the top and the bottom of the screen, with the current program line on the top and the program you are scrolling on the bottom. And of course the current program still playing away in the middle, fairly unobstructed by your little foray into the truly interactive nature of testosterone laden tv viewing. The info button is truly brilliant. It lets you find out what the current program program on the lower bar is all about: Brief synopsis of the main stars, the main plot, and occasionally the director of note.
A Theme button allows you to easily choose one of 8 subcategories: movies, sports, news/business, fam/chil, edu, series, music/art, religious. I rarely use this function, but when i do it's very helpful and allows one to find an exact match for instant viewing pleasure. One minor quibble with this function is it only lets you search about 8 hours of programming, so you can't use it to program the next days baseball or basketball games. But you can do that with the regular menu option: just enter a number value in hours+before hitting the browse button and the reciever and dish go to work downloading the events in that time frame. If your vcr is'nt dbs compatible and will not tune your dss reciever, you can auto tune 8? events and just set the vcr to record at a particular time on any available channel and yes, you will have your own personal tv assistant.
Truly a terrific remote and one i'll continue to use with my Marantz rc2000 learning illuminated. I guess that speaks quite admirably of the unit, because the rc2000 is also a truly impressive wand. Now if i could combine the two, well i would'nt be here slaving away at my keyboard right now, i'd be in some far away land, sipping sweet nothings and whispering buttery retorts into some beautiful maidens glistening lobe... Thankyou echostar!

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