Song Of The Day: Beautiful Day Artist: U2
After Time Warner’s Blue-ray announcement at the CES 2008 and the Blu-ray movie promotion, I decided to buy a PS3. With the 5 free Blue-ray movies, at a typical $30 a pop, the deal just seemed too good to pass up.
However, there was one really annoying problem with my new-found Blue-ray player: no IR support. This meant that EVERY aspect of my system could be controlled by my universal remote, except the PS3 - ugh!
So I searched around and found a couple solutions:
However, I didn’t want a new remote and none appeared to support power on/off of the system. Who wants to walk 3 yards to turn the PS3 off and on when everything else does the right thing. How dare Sony prompt me to exercise. :)
Well, for those like me wait no longer. There is a device for $50 that supports playback and power on/off capabilities, all from a universal remote like the Logitech Harmony 880.
More after the jump…
