Regarding the VPT, while this won't work for people that need to use lots of space for learned commands, I've found that just learning the volume up, down, and mute commands from the receiver remote into the tv's buttons for those commands works nicely. Because the other devices punch through to the tv, it then causes them to use the learned commands.

Obviously, this isn't a good choice if you need lots of space for learned commands, but so far, using the JP1 stuff, those are the only commands I've needed to learn. I'm in far greater danger personally of running out of space in the advanced codes section than the learned command section of memory.

Personally, I'm pretty happy with the 2104, and using the jp1 to program it sure beats trying to hit that stupid recessed programming key. Now if only I could figure out why my macro for turning things on and setting inputs crashes the remote on the dvd device... (probably just a stupid mistake in setting keys on my part).