Have Pioneer 53", Pioneer DVD, Dish, Philips VCR. I would like one remote to control all and still be good for any upgradeable units down the road. Do appreciate the input for your future advise. Happy new Year to all, Paul.

The pronto TSU2000 (or 6000 if you have the money) would be your best bet. It is infininetly upgradeable.

Three questions:

What's your budget?
Do you prefer hard buttons, or touchpads?
How much effort do you want to put into customizing and tweaking the capabilities?

The One For All Cinema 7 and Radio Shack 15-2104 hard-button remotes are inexpensive and top-quality right out of the box. With additional programming effort on your part, they are also extremely flexible. See more details in the reviews here and at http://www.hifi-remote.com

Home Theater Master make the MX-500 and MX-1000. The MX-500 has both traditional hard buttons and hard buttons with LCD labels that you can edit to your preference. The MX-1000 offers a combination of hard buttons and touchscreen buttons, and can be programmed from a PC. See reviews and forums on this site.

The Pronto series offer exclusively touchpad buttons. Depending on the model, it can be almost infinitely customized. Due to this extreme flexibility, this remote will require some programming effort on your part to get it just the way you like it. See reviews and forums on this site.

There's also a new kid on the block: The Harmony Remote promises to be extremely interesting and offers a great deal of future compatability See the forums on this site and check out [Link: easyzapper.com] for more details.

I personally use an MX-500 and am highly satisfied with it. I also have a Cinema 7 and am quite pleased with it as well.


This message was edited by Bruce Burson on 12/28/01 05:24.40.

Bruce: the Pronto has some hard buttons
TSU-2000 (and all others at that level) have 7 programmable
TSU-6000 has 9 programmable
Marantz 5200 and 9200 have 14 programmable buttons

Use the "Clicker Picker" on this site.

new to all this to - having a brief look at clicker picker I'm unsure what will work with X-10 home automation transceiver - also have similar needs to Paul but budget nearer to 100UKP than 200 - any "non-database" advice?

Anthony, good point.

pj, within a 100£ budget, I would recommend the MX-500.

For X-10 control, you will also need an ir receiver such as the IR543. See http://www.homeautomationnet.com/ or http://www.smarthome.com
The MX-500 has pre-programmed codes for most X-10 devices, or it can learn the codes from an X-10 IR remote.