Wow it's great to be a free man, LOL. To anybody in need of an incredible Universal Remote at a relatively reasonable price, I recommend the Harmony 676 Remote by Logitech. I discovered this remote by accident in Fry's Electronics in LA a huge discount place. What attracted to me was the fact that the whole thing is programmed incredibly easy by computer using a USB to their website as I am too brain dead to know how to manually program/teach these things. I'm not sure if that's the only remote that you can program by computer, but its a great idea. The price at Fry's was $250 but I discovered you can easily get this remote brand new online for between $120-$140 including shipping using Google search engine, Amazon.com & Ebay so I returned mine at Fry's and got one online for $116 that took 3 days to arrive. This remote is fantastic as I can get it to do anything I want & its set up is real easy to use. I've programmed it for 3 basic operations: TV/DVR, CD's & DVD & there is a seperation button for each. You click TV, your TV goes on, your receiver with the TV input goes on and your Cable Box DVR goes on. You click DVD, your DVD goes on, the receivers DVD input goes on & the TV goes on to the input the DVD is set on (Comp 1 for me). For CD the DVD player and receiver goes on. Customer support at Harmony/Logitech is great- they can make changes themselves on the phone there and all you have to do is click the update button on the web site when your remote is connected and it does that. You can also make changes on the website yourself to add/adjust your remote. It took me a few calls to fine tune everything, which they said is about average. Based on the results of this remote, I am going to get a second Harmony 676 for my bedroom. Harmony recommends that if you have a second TV/receiver/DVD player etc. that is a different brand than the first, you use a second remote to put that in.
Harmony also is coming out this month with their 880 remote which cosmetically looks nicer but essentially does the same things and is listed for $249. I'm fine with the 676 at a much lower price. Someone said that Amazon.com (See the Remote thread below, post #21) has a bunch of cheaper models out- I don't know the features on them but you might want to check out that thread.