I've now used a couple different Universal Remote products (the 950's remote is an SL-9000 with the LCD display removed) and have been consistently pleased with them. I even wrote up a review of the MX500 last year, if you are interested. The URC-200 (and its siblings the 100 and 300) are Universal's fairly new line of "consumer" remotes (unlike the Home Theater Master remotes like the MX500 that were theoretically only sold to custom installers). Remote Central has a review of all three URC remotes that may offer you some good info on how they differ from the MX500 and its siblings. Are they similar? Oh, yeah - Universal just tweaked the basic concept to preserve the MX series as a more "high end" line while retaining pretty much all the strengths of the MX's. I have a possibly biased preference for the MX500, but the URC-200 is still a pretty slick looking remote. The URC remotes do include a code for Outlaw (it's 342, to be exact) that I would expect to get most or all of the 950's commands covered - since that's the same code included for Atlantic Tech (whose only pre/pro or receiver product is a 950 clone) and Fosgate Audionics (whose FAP-T1 is based on the 950 chassis), it's most likely that this code has been developed primarily for the 950. I don't know if current production runs of the MX remotes also include this - the two families look to share the same code database, so it's very possible that new MX500's today would include the 342 code. Either way, I've relied mostly on learning commands for my MX500 rather than using the code library.