Thanks to all of you, I too chose the 1994 over the Sony RM-AV2000 after reading this thread. Great buy for the price and easy enough for my wife and young kids to use.

My cable box, TV, and VCR were preprogrammed but I have the infamous Kenwood VR-309 and a cheap SV2000 DVD player (came free w/my TV) for which I had to learn the codes. I've used up all the learning memory for these two devices but luckily I've covered all the frequently used functions.

One quirk I found is that I couldn't remap the receiver's volume +/- or mute buttons to the other devices. I'm guess it was because they were learned instead of preprogrammed. It means that I had to learn those three buttons for the AUX1, VCR and DVD devices causing me to waste 6 precious learning memory slots.

Anybody else have this problem?

Chris