The one thing I did not like was having to use the shift function to have both transport & cursor/menu functions with a component requiring both like a DVD player. The new 2nd generation URC2 has a shift status indicator LED. I love watching the Smartpads react to the URC2 and track to the same component (Push "CD" on the URC2 and "CD" LED on the Smartpad in the room/zone will also light. I have had about 3 failures out of many dozens I have sold/installed. This is an amazingly compact, powerful, and well lit (it always lights up/glows when moved) remote. Nothing in it's price range comes close. The MX700 would be my only step-up choice of anything else out there.