I need to adjust the volume/mute on 16 different tv's to test sound and video for videos played off of a server. Any idea which remote can do this? Cheaper the better of course. The platform is NT but I don't think that should matter. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
Eric

Assuming you only need volume up, volume down,
and mute, that's three functions. I can think of
a way to make a Cinema 7 IQ (URC-7800) control
three functions on 19 devices, and that's before
you figure in the learning abilities. Factor
that in, and it goes up to at least 24.

Since the Cinema 7 is only supposed to be able to
control 7 devices, you'd have to put functions on
buttons where they don't technically belong, like
putting the controls for one TV on the 1, 4 and 7
buttons, another TV on the 2, 5 and 8, buttons,
etc. It wouldn't be pretty, but it would work.

Also, the Cinema 7 IQ is relatively inexpensive,
at aynwhere from $16.50 to $25, depending on
where you shop.

-=Ingenious=-

And... since the cinema6/7 learning remoted can have a macro assigned to just about any key, you could conceivably have one press of the MUTE button mute all (OK, only 15) TVs. The macro feature has a limit of 15 button presses, but if you're standing near at least ONE TV, then manuall press the mute button on it.

Then again, a Pronto could do this in a flash. Any button on a pronto can have up to 255 actions assigned to it. You can put as many different buttons on a single touch screen panel as will fit, and there are several hard buttons including mute, vol-up and vol-dn. It's not cheap compared to a Cinema, but if it does the job...

Dave

For $300-$400 a Pronto ought to be able to do
your taxes, and change your socks for you.

Assuming we follow from the fact that he said
that "Cheaper the better of course", I'd assume
that the Pronto would never make it onto the list
of contenders.

If he wants a mute macro for all 16, it could be
a problem, but one way around this is to have the
mute for the first TV on one button, and the mute
functions for the 15 remaining TVs on a macro
button right next to it. That way, you just hit
the first TV's mute, which finishes fast, and
while that's happening you move your finger over
to the macro key, which handles the other 15
while you wait.

As I said before, it wouldn't be pretty, but it
would work. (And it would be cheap.)

-=Ingenious=-

Seems to me that if he can afford 16 TV's ........

I suspect that he is not in direct ownership of
these 16 TVs, but rather must tend them in a
professional sense. If this is the case, then
this, combined with his request for an
inexpensive solution, would seem to invalidate
your implied conclusion.

-=Ingenious=-