Ugly
Fishy Cool Bird
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| PS3 Remote recommendation, mostly as BluRay player
Folks, this bird has not mastered (yet) the tight gripping of a game player/controller with wings and beak.
Mostly I peck my PS3 player into showing a BluRay disc of some beautiful places where I dream of flying. 
As I need a remote, it just makes sense to ask those having the most experience and familiarity with this hardware.
• So please, what is best PS3 remote? Thanks, Ugly 
Note to mod: If this is not best forum, feel free to move where best suited. Thanks.
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BigReds42
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| Best one has to be the one from Sony...
»www.tigerdirect.com/applications···RqCjCVRq
$24.99 |
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Coolbrz
join:2002-12-16
Port Allegany, PA
1 edit | Thats the remote I got for mine, works well, no complaints. Not sure if its the best as I have no comparison and I am not sure if there are 3rd party remotes for it, never looked heh. |
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IamGimli
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| said by Coolbrz  :I am not sure if there are 3rd party remotes for it, never looked heh. There are but the third party remotes are not Bluetooth and require an infrared dongle to be plugged into one of the USB ports on the PS3, like this one:
»www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12145 |
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Nightfall
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| reply to BigReds42
I got the same remote, but I got it from Amazon. It works awesome. Well worth the price. Highly recommend it. |
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Ugly
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| said by Nightfall :I got the same remote, but I got it from Amazon. It works awesome. Well worth the price. Highly recommend it. Think it's better than this one?
»www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de···v=glance
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C0deZer0
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| reply to Ugly
Only one really worth using is the Sony brand model, because there is no IR sensor for the PS3 so that you could use a universal remote that most standard home theater equipment would have used.
Pretty much all (or most) the others have to use a USB dongle in order to fake the IR support so that their remotes could be used (likely because they didn't want to have to pay for the Bluetooth usage, or then retro-make a driver so that it would work on the PS3, and probably pay Sony some kind of royalty to make their remotes no longer price-competitive).
Anyways, the simple suggestion is to stick with the official one. |
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manfrommars2
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| reply to Ugly
If you have a universal remote and don't want to have another remote sitting around, there are a few third party adapters floating around also such as this »ir2bt.com/
I'm currently using the Sony remote myself but will eventually get some type of adapter so I can just use the Harmony once again. |
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BuckarooB
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| reply to Ugly
only gripe I have about the Sony PS3 remote is that its not backlit. With the controller knowing where Play and Select I can find as well as knowing where the other controls are without really looking. With the remote you'll need light to see what you are doing.
It is sturdy and feels much better in your hand than the PS2 remote ever did.
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JSY
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| reply to Ugly
I have the Sony remote, but I'm sort of mixed with it being bluetooth. Then again, I don't know what IR remote out there could be made to work with it. It's just that now I have 3 remotes that look almost identical to each other - each from Sony. The TV, the Audio/Video Home Theatre, and the PS3, and while the TV and Home Theatre play nice with each other, the PS3 is kinda out there. It really would have been nice to have had an integrated IR controller on the PS3 remote so that I could control something like the volume of my TV. I do so much remote swapping that sometimes I sit there and have a brain fart and don't know which to pick up. I haven't been able to find any universal remote that would control everything satisfactorily.
Then I have another Sony remote for a DVD recorder and yet another Sony remote for an old VHS machine that I had hooked up to the DVD recorder to transfer videos. LOL!
I love Sony and all, but one thing about their remotes - they are never really intuitive. They've never been. |
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justin
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| reply to Ugly
off topic on remotes. I was a user of the logitech 1000 and despite being well reviewed I found it really bad.
a) to use it you had to look at it, not at the tv
b) the battery died, isn't available other than from logitech
c) it was buggy, and slow
d) it was somewhat fragile
so when the battery died, I took the chance and "upgraded" to the cheaper harmony One. This is a MUCH better universal. Lots of real backlit buttons but also the programmable color touch screen. Proper shape. Can be used without looking at it. Less bugs and faster in channel flicking. Only problem: the damn thing lacks RF extender functionality.
But I'm finally satisfied! I don't think there is any comparable universal below the super high end versions.
The system logitech use for programming the remote under windows and mac is still totally brain dead slow and stupidly frustratingly designed. But thats a setup phase annoyance.
So getting back to the topic I'd get the IR adapter and get a harmony One and put all those other remotes into the bottom drawer for good.. |
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bignate
join:2005-12-05
Austin, TX
| reply to Ugly
i also use the harmony one. i originally bought the nyko bluwave so i could control the PS3 with the harmony but i found not being able to turn it on and off as well as the usb dongle parking its self on controller 1 to be very annoying so i think i am going to try an ir2bt next which is supposed to allow the full functionality of the sony remote from the harmony. |
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