Hey guys, I got caught up reading the forum and am very impressed; I never knew you could reprogram a one-for all remote with a serial cable heheh.

Anyway, I bought a DVD recorder for my brother a week ago and it was a terrific deal, but it came with no remote. Presumably, the previous owner had tons of these machines and never kept the remotes.. I wonder what happened to them :(

Anyway, as you guys know the DVD recorders are set to DVD-3 by default and the universal remotes I have on hand can't do that. Funny, because it sounds like comcast remotes can! Aint that nice? Dish remotes can't!

From search I saw some recommendations but they're all from a couple of years ago, and those model remotes don't seem as easy to come by anymore. Do you think a Harmony might do the trick? Or perhaps a sony universal remote? (A rm-vz220 is only $8 or so!) Any inexpensive options would be very much welcome, thanks! :D