Next Generation Remote Control Extender | List Price: $68.34
Discount Price: $29.40
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Brand: Next Generation
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Turns any IR remote into RF by simply installing the battery transmitter
- Go room to room and control your components up to 100' away
- No direct line of sight needed
- Includes AAA battery transmitter with AA sleeve and receiver with built-in recharger
- 433.92 MHz Unit
Next Gen remote extender Works GREAT!!! [Posted on 2008-07-12]
Just got through mounting my lcd flat panel tv to the wall and put my cable box in the basement of my 100 year old house (real 2x4s, horse hair plaster walls and sheetrock too!) and this thing works GREAT! pluged it in and placed the transmitter in the remote as instructed and the controler on top of the cable box in the basement and tada! the remote works upstairs in the living room with the cable box in the basement. TV looks clean as i wired the wall with a plug in and hdmi behind the flat panel and the box is GONE! Buy one if you want a clean install of a new flat panel, you won't regret it!
Great idea but... [Posted on 2008-07-12]
It is a great idea but works only intermittently for me. My biggets problem is that sometimes it keeps on holding the button down. For example, if I press down arrow, it'll execute down arrow in a loop, until I press some other button. It is not my remote because I saw it on the second remote as well. It may have been some interference issue very specefic to my settings or equipment but at least it did not work perfectly for me.
I've my equipment in garage and use this to control Archos TV+ from the living room. The IR signal gets there 95% of the time but sometimes there is just no response, which is very frustrating.
Wow, How cool! [Posted on 2008-07-13]
Super easy to install and works great. I have my DISH Network receiver in the basement and TV in the living room. DISH TV2 is a UHF remote, but DISH TV1 is an IR remote. I investigated a cabled IR remote extender, but it was more expensive and more complicated. I didn't even have to use the stick on emitter, it worked great by placing the unit in front of my DISH receiver IR ports.
Worked perfectly from the start! [Posted on 2008-07-14]
I live in a country where these little $35 products sell for around $100, so I did my homework before buying online. I already have the little cone type extenders that you have to point the remote directly to and not be too far away from them. I read about this one and decided to give it a try. Well, right now, I'm in my office, switching channels from my desk on my directv box that is two concrete walls away from me in the reception area.
The manual has some Tarzan-type English, but reading the reviews here gives you the tweaking and troubleshooting tips you really need. I followed the advice I read here and I left the tiny transmitter battery charging overnight in the charger on the bottom of the UFO shaped emitter. Next morning, I put the tiny transmitter inside the AA battery size plastic case as indicated in the manual, took out one of the regular batteries from my remote, put in the transmitter one and hit a key. The little red led lights on my remote shone meaning charge was ok. I later placed the UFO about 1,5 meters (nearly 5 feet) away in direct view of my Directv box outside at the reception desk, plugged it in, waited to see a set of lights go on and off on the UFO indicating it was set, went back to my office and began changing channels. Just like that. I suppose my remote uses the default B setting that comes on the extender, so I didnt have to change anything. The only issue came when my receptionist turned the Directv box in another direction and the UFO lost sight of the infrared sensor on the box. I obviously fired her ........ kiddinggg!!! We both learned that as the manual says (duh!), the front part of the UFO has to look the infrared sensor on your TV or cable box in the eye.
I did some more testing by walking around and changing channels. For my distance and material needs (around 6 meters and going through two concrete walls), the device works perefectly. The fact that you don't have to point the remote anywhere because this thing turns it into a transmitter is very creative, practical and very well worth my money and even writing this review for which I hardly have time for. Thumbs up all the way! Tarzan writing the manual is not reason enough to take a star from it.
Great Product [Posted on 2008-07-17]
I needed to get a remote extender to change the channels on a cable box that is connected to two TV's in two different rooms. I deside to Give Next Generation a try. It works great! You do have to adjust the base unit to face all items you wish to control (I have a universal remote for Cabel Box, TV, and Stero). You also, have to rember not to point the remote at the devices, I guess the double signel cancles the comand out. As long as you point the remote away from what you are trying to control all works well, in the room or two rooms away!!!
If you are looking to control your electronics from another room this is the unit you need.
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