Well, Gonk, based on your excellent review and the $71 price from Bluedo, an authorized dealer w/ a two year warranty offer and a promise of the latest version, I've ordered the MX-500 remote. I too have a 950 used with a Pioneer universal player, a Sony Cineza 20 front projector,an lfm-1, and five Mackie monitors. I'm hopeful that codes will work with this stuff but, I know I can "teach" the remote everything I need. I'm really looking forward to creating macros. After I switch on the Brick power supply I'll press Macro 1 which will power up the 950, Pioneer and Sony, switch each to the correct input and allow me to control the transport functions and volume with ONE remote. Yippee! (It may even allow my family to use the ht without my presence!)
This is gonna be good. Thanks for your advice!

Jay