best touch screen remote for home theater?

Question

what would be / is considered the best of all the home automation / home theater touch screen remote controls, money no object, whats your opinion,

Answer 1

Crestron or AMX. both very expensive and must be programed by a certified programmers, but clearly the best full automated remote systems.. If your just simply wanting to buy a remote and program it yourself, and you want full automation Universal Remote makes a nice stand alone remote that can be programmed on your computer with their software and have additonal controlers and accessories to control anything in your home.



Kevin

40 years high end audio video specialist

Answer 2

Hi there, whenever you are looking for a universal remote keep on mind the performability of your equipment, as many can recommend Crestron for a clearly top of the line product, there are still many options around, as for a touch panel, on my personal opinion a logitech remote can do the work, prices are around $300 up to 15 devices are more than enough, i have worked with Crestron for many years, and lately i have noticed there are a lot of competitors that can easy match the performance, now a days apple products are for sure the most common use, because they versatile, you can use a phone as a remote a mirror TVs without going over 1k, on the other site for Crestron is at least a couple of 1k.



If you have the money this would be an excellent choice.

Crestron Mobile Pro®

(CRESTRON-MOBILE-PRO)

Answer 3

The Crestron's are good -but needs a specialist who can program the thing.



My favorite remotes are the Harmony Logitech remotes. These are 'activity' based. You go to their website and tell it what gear you have. Then it asks you how things are hooked up and you tell it when watching normal TV you want the volume up/down to be controlled by the TV or by your AV Receiver.



The website packages things up in a file that downloads to your remote hooked up with a USB cable.



Go to your system and hit the "Watch DVD" button 1 time and it will:



* Fire up the TV

* Fire up the DVD/BluRay player

* Fire up the AV Receiver

* Pause a second or three for things to come up

* Switch the TV to see HDMI2

* Switch the receiver to see optical from the TV



All with 1 button press. Then the various volume, pause, menu buttons on the remote control the DVD/BluRay player.



When you hit the "Watch TV" button - things change, but now the volume, pause, menu buttons control your DVR.



You can even create soft buttons with macros to do things you want with 1 button press. For example I like using the Picture in Picture feature on my Dish box, but I want the 2 screens at 50% side by side. This takes about 4 button presses on my Dish remote to do, but 1 macro with the Harmony Logitech.



Lots of power but the default setup handles 98% of what you want it to do.

Answer 4

Probably something like the Crestron TPMC-8X. The price varies, depending on the exact configuration that you need, but £2,000 is typical.