I too an yet another victim of the NTL digital boxes using IRDA.
I would love to purchase a video sender to watch cable,tv and DVD on my TV set upstairs. I've been speaking today to a company which produces one in particular (
www.digisender.com). They say that next week they have a meeting with NTL at their factory. The idea is to modify their product somehow to transmit the higher frequency IRDA signals. Fingers crossed.
Still doesn't help me as I want to purchase the Pronto to control every other device in the house.