Your right, all your components come with their own remote if you dont mind doing the following to watch cable TV.
1- pick up tv remote, press power.
2- pick up AVR remote, press power
3- pick up cable remote, press power
4- pick up tv remote, select HDMI 1 input by pressing the input button untill you get to HDMI 1
5- pick up AVR remote and select CATV input
6- pick up CATV remote and select channel
7- pick up AVR remote and adust volume of AVR but dont put down the CATV remote because your going to want to change the channel.

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Pick up properly programmed URC remote and press CATV