NoisyGecko

Normally I stay away from Sony Products -- I don't like their proprietary elements and don't see a lot of value in their products -- but the RM-VL600 universal/learning remote is an exception. I have steered away from Sony products for years, but I have tried a lot of remotes and never found one which works very well.

The Sony RM-VL600 cost me $25 at Walmart, and has worked very well for the past month or so. It already knows the codes for many devices out there, but I have also been able to program it for the remotes it doesn't know. This has been useful for my GoVideo DVD player, as well as to fix some problems with remotes it knows.

There are also 4 macro buttons which can be programmed to do buttons sequences, and the power buttons can also be set to run macros when held down.

One of the few problems I have had with the remote is that the buttons -- especially the volume and channel ones -- are too easy to press. But I can live with that after finally finding a remote which I can finally use as the only remote to control all move my living room multimedia devices.