On July 20, 2007 at 03:24, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
I would rather learn
the positions of thirty buttons than have to use two hands
and look at the screen every time I used the remote.
That's it exactly.
JP1 remotes are low cost and more flexibly programmable than Pronto's or other higher cost universal remotes. The major disadvantage of a JP1 remote compared to those others is the button labels are pre printed and won't match the functions you program on those buttons.
But I don't want to look at the remote anyway while using it. If I don't look, I need to know button function by position, not label. So those wrong labels don't matter.