Excellent, excellent advice.

I have had IR blocked by sunlight off the choppy waves of the Pacific Ocean off Malibu, where the ocean is due south so Ir control is impossible during two hours of the afternoon. And, of course, the curtains are IR controlled so once you are in that time period, you must control things digitally. As in the digits on your hand.

AudioPlex has NOT been the solution for me. I don't do a plasma with an IR remote system.

I insist on a Pronto, and have had zero problems with them. Really. Zero. Unless, of course, you are talking about the totally stupid not-ready-for-anyone-but-the-hobbyist-who-has-no-wife-and-kids-now-or-won't-after-all-the-time-it-took-to-get-the-remote-to-work NG variety of Prontos and Marantzes. After I found that these remotes can modify working learned codes into unworking ones (and that lovely "feature" cannot be turned off), I quit selling them at all.