A good number of these posts are from people who have 1. lost the oem remote, 2. oem remote "died", 3. Dog ate oem, 4. bought X_device from ebay or pawn shop, garage sale, etc with no oem remote.

Even WITH an oem, many functions are supported in the device's firmware, but aren't available on the oem remote (ie discrete on/off, discrete inputs, etc.). So what good is the capacity to learn 290 buttons for these people?

"small database"----lemme guess, support for sony devices isn't bad, but when it comes to "other" brands, it's piss-poor to non-existent.

Jim