David,

Thanks for the reply. I already emailed Uiec with a specific inquiry. I will wait. The upside is that it is only a $17 remote and that Walmart has a really nice return policy.

What is puzzling is that the RCA DBS is one of the big three in DSS, along with SONY and Hughes. I find it quite odd that the remote cannot communicate with it. I have a 3 week old Toshiba 3109 DVD that worked on the first try. Weird.

I am beginning to believe that it is related to the fact that the DBS is called SAT2 since my upstairs DBS receiver is SAT1. After trying and trying, I got the upstairs DBS (SAT1) to at least turn on and off. One solution may be to switch the SAT assignments so that the Cinema 7 is being used with the SAT1. I don't know...