On July 1, 2016 at 22:17, iimig said...
...my vote goes to MX-780 or 890 as a step up
The idea was not to go a step up, but to replace an out-of-date remote with one that performed as well and solved its major problems. We've seen cooler hipper remotes that lasted a year; what we needed was a nice-looking clunker that would last for ten.