Henry Baker wrote: > These are all good suggestions, but are applicable to only 0.001% > of the viewing audience. Why are these extreme measures necessary? > How come the CE industry can't get its act together? How is wiring your house for signal distribution and programming an intelligent remote extreme? Wimax distribution and the all-seeing eye dog of remote controls sounds better? At what expense? Here's some of the hardware I was talking about. Works like a charm: http://www.xantech.com/products/p_folder/p_172.htm http://www.hometech.com/infrared/rcvrs.html#XA-17294 http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=15-1950 Cheers Kon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.