I've got the Harmony One and can use it to control all aspects of my Astro Max, no problems. The only downside i can see is that the Harmony doesnt hv the dedicated set of extra GREY directional (up, down, left, right) buttons, which can be found on the original Astro Max remote in addition to the standard set of WHITE directional buttons (as you know, the original Astro Max remote uses the different coloured buttons to control different aspects of the onscreen navigation). What i do is use the hardware directional buttons on the Harmony One as the WHITE directional buttons (which is the default) and configure four additional buttons on the touch screen (labeled as 'Grey Up', 'Grey Down', 'Grey Left' and 'Grey Right') for the GREY directional buttons. A little clunkier but it works.

I think you can still do so with the earlier Harmony remotes (non-touch screen models) - the earlier models have buttons by the sides of the screen (next to each icon) that allows you to activate/select the corresponding onscreen icon, you just can't select by touching the actual icon onscreen, that's all. Aiman may be able to shed some light on this with his new 'toy'...

This post has been edited by augustinesoh: Dec 31 2008, 08:13 AM

Terranova (the OP of this thread) has already done a great review of the Harmony One. Only comment i would like to add after a few weeks' use is that sometimes the Logitech Harmony Remote software (which goes online to retrieve and save your settings) can become unbearably slow/sluggish and sometimes loses its login/connection. I read somewhere that this can happen when there's very heavy traffic to the Logitech server (e.g., during peak holiday season in the US). Overall, I'm extremely pleased with the One. It seems that it's even got some kind of smart sensor technology that can tell if a device is already on when you start an activity so it won't accidentally turn it off. Highly recommended. Now i just need to wean my family members from the old jumble of remotes and start using only the One!