I read Spiky's post back in August that there were no universal remotes out there compaible with Dish UHF, so I gather that applies to our Dish 501 DVR as well. I don't think it uses IR at all, but perhaps I'm mistaken...

It looks like several new RF (UHF?) programmable remotes have come out since then. Perhaps someone has started making one that's Dish-UHF compatible? Anything new on this?

The dish remote seems quite capable but we really miss:

1) A macro feature (We used to have our cheap old Sony universal remote set up to turn everything on with one click).

2) Reprogrammable buttons. (so the volume control always adjusts the volume on the tuner even if the remote is on the SAT or TV mode, for example).

Kevin