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.comHome 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.