I bought a new Toshiba A30 and a Sony 300 Blu Ray Player and have it HDMI to a Panny 58" Plasma TV and tried to program the new Onkyo sr805 HT reveiver remote to turn on the 2 hd dvd players.

I tried all the coded in the provided Onkyo Reveiver manual for the Toshiba and the Sony and none seem to work.

Can anyone tell me what the code it for these 2 new HD players??

Why is it so hard to find these??

Are the maufacturers the culprit here??

And how can Logitech with their high dollar remotes obtain these codes and get them to work?

Help!!

Alex

Your native programmable remote has a fixed number of codes imbedded. The "manufacturer" of that native remote likely contracts with another company to make the remote and/or provide the imbedded code set. I am sure they have choices as to how comprehensive this code set is and these choices effect the contract price. I am also sure that the manufacturer does not know or care what the code details are because they do not wish to invest time or money keeping track of comprehensive code libraries from other manufacturers. The likely prefer that you purchase as many of their components as possible.

The most important thing to realize is this... IR is basically a consumer level technology and most manufacturers will care only about controlling their own components with their own remotes. Some manufacturers do treat IR as a professional level control solution but these manufacturers tend to also provide other solutions such as RS232, USB or ethernet. These components are also designed with integration in mind.

Universal remotes and control systems do a better job with code libraries because they need to provide answers if their products are to be sold and used, however, they are by no means complete. The reason for this is that since IR is a consumer level solution, manufacturers can change code sets, subcontractors, firmware, etc... without notification, all which can effect control specifics. When this happens it makes the rest of us scramble to figure it all out.

well said!

Logitech make a high dollar remote? news to me. Buy yourself a good aftermarket remote and your problems should go away. I would buy a MX-810 from URC.