Azryan, no, you're not the only one who does that (cupped hand over remote end). At first I thought it was kind of cool that the input selection buttons also turned on the 950 and switched the remote modes, but I quickly found that it's inconvenient many times and that the only way around it is to cup your hand over the end of the remote.

Another qualm with the remote: it seems as though Outlaw used the standard 9000 labelling for the key caps and only supplied templates for the space between the keys. So, for example, there is the button labelled "ENTER" on its face and "BYPASS" above... and then there are the ten buttons at the bottom with no labelling on their face. This isn't really an issue except when you're in a dark room; the buttons light up but the labels above the remote do not so you have no idea what 950 functions the buttons control.

Otherwise I think it's a decent (not great, but decent) remote and I'm pretty happy with it as far as a bundled-with-a-device remote goes. I probably wouldn't have paid money for it as a 3rd party universal remote, though.

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net