Thanks for the advice. Seeing that I will be adding additional a/v equipment in my new house, which remote do you recomend that will actually work well with the equipment I have now and the any future equipment?

Also, if I'm in my office and I want to change the channels of my Direct TV satellite box(that is in the living room), will the rc 9800i change the channels with no problems or would I have buy a RF receiver in order to do this?