Almost all buttons can be reprogrammed using software, but if you have guests over to your house all the time that use your remote, this may not be the perfect remote for you. A lot of the standard Media Center buttons are not there (or labeled how you want them to be) by default.At the time of writing this article, the TiVo Slide remote is around $40 on Amazon. Buttons are back-lit when it is dark and you press a button.Buttons are pretty well laid out and you should be able to distinguish them without looking.Reprogramming buttons is very flexible using the step-by-step guide below.Any time you need to type something in to either search for something or jump down the list of recordings, movies, etc., you can just start typing it in instead of pretending you are using a cell phone from the 90s. There is pretty much no lag between button presses unlike the Harmony’s pause between IR blasts. Compared to my old Logitech Harmony 650, the TiVo Slide is extremely fast. No need to point the remote towards the TV when pressing buttons (except power and volume, unless you blast the volume codes with an IR Blaster) One benefit of using a TiVo Slide Remote with Media Center is has a built in keyboard! Advantages There are many other benefits and even some drawbacks to using a TiVo Slide remote with Media Center, so we’ll cover those first.
One benefit is obvious: it has a built in keyboard.
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Let us show you, step-by-step, how to configure this keyboard + remote with Media Center. Wouldn’t the TiVo sliding keyboard remote be great if you could use it with Windows Media Center? Well now you can have all of that keyboard goodness and still use the best DVR on the planet: Windows Media Center.
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