Ernie, first the bad news. You are full of hooey. The good news is that there are discrete commands built into the remote. Press and hold Power and press 0-9-0
b: Following are the discretes:
Power Button: Discrete ON
Stop Button: Discrete OFF
Device Button, #1: Input 1
Device Button, #2: Input 2
Device Button, #3: Input 3
Device Button, #4: Input 4
Device Button, #5: Component 1
Device Button, #6 Component 2
Device Button, PIP CH UP: Antenna A
Device Button, PIP CH Down: Antenna B
Device Button, PIP/POP: HD Ant A DTV
Device Button, #7: VGA

To revert the Remote back to orig functions: Press and Hold Power while
pressing: 0-0-0

Wash that hooey off as soon as possible.