In better news, I'm having a little more luck with the remote now. Finally got it programmed for my TV & VCR. Don't know why it didn't work before; I simply followed the same procedure today that I did last time, and one of the codes turned the VCR off. Likewise for the TV. *shrug*

I couldn't find a code that would turn off my CD player (Sony CDP-MX555ES) but that's OK, I would probably use the Sony's remote anyway as it has a handy LCD that shows track and disc titles.

The only code that worked for the TV had some of the buttons wrong; the "menu" button worked, and up-down keys, but side to side keys activated the picture controls, so I had no way to use the menu. So I used the "learn" function to reprogram those keys. Worked like a charm, once I figured out how to work it.

One thing that confused me; you have to press the key on the teaching remote twice; my first reading of the manual seemed to say you had to press the button on the teaching remote once and then the button on the 950 remote. In fact, once you press the button on the teaching remote twice, it's programmed, and you don't press the 950's button again.

I didn't have so much luck with my DVD player. For one, my DVD player has no on/off function on the remote; only on the front panel, so that made finding the code harder. The only code I found that does anything has all the buttons in VERY odd places, and the keypad doesn't work, etc. Later, when I get time, I'm going to try using the learning function to program each button individually without using a code. It may be hard, though, because of all the "weird" buttons on the DVD remote (angle, subtitle, a-b, clear, time, program, shuffle, audio, menu, title, display, return, and at least half a dozen others...) Even if I find a key on the 950's remote for all of these, I'll forget what they all do rather quickly.

Overall, I'm happy with the remote. My only qualm is that it still occasionally takes several presses to get the 950 to recognize a command... And going from five to three remotes is still a BIG improvement.

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net