Suggestion If you are thinking about buying a TS160 you might want to buy two of them. One to connect and other you can use as a paper weight.
Take remote from second unit and use in a second TV room connected to first receiver by IF.

Your other option is to buy a MX-700 or carry first remote from room to room.

There are no other learning remotes for TS160 and no extra remotes available from Samsung.

Go figure.

I am about to start using the Samsung sat receivers, so this caught my eye.

I have read it three times and I have no clue what you are trying to tell us.

Are half of the 160s dead out of the box?

Do you mean "connected by RF" as in a Channel 3 connection? Wnhy can't you use both sat receivers, one in each room?

Do you mean learning remotes such as the Pronto cannot learn the codes of the 160, or do you mean universal remotes now available do not have the 160's codes in them?

Why only the MX-700? Have you tried the Pronto, the Marantz, the RTI, the Crestron, the AMX, and they all cannot learn these codes?

I am about to start using the Samsung sat receivers, so this caught my eye.

I have read it three times and I have no clue what you are trying to tell us.

Are half of the 160s dead out of the box?

Do you mean "connected by RF" as in Channel 3?

Do you mean learning remotes such as the Pronto cannot learn the codes of the 160, or do you mean universal remotes now available do not have the 160's codes in them?

Why only the MX-700?

Another HDTV board suggested I forget about trying to turn on TS160 from another room using IF. No learning code or nothing will do it unless it is another Samsung HDTV Directv remote which comes with TS160.
No replacement remotes are available. If you can find one let me know.
Best solution is to use a learning remote to learn every single number button, guide, previous, guide etc and keep your TS 160 on.
I'm using a One for All 8910. I have 3 tv's in 3 rooms. one tv is connected to receiver and others by RG6 with IF.
I do not have a separate TS160 in each room. Just one.
It seems to work. I don't like leaving it on but unless another option comes along.

I'm not sure why you would want to turn your sat receiver off, but assuming you do, my Pronto had no problem learning the codes (including power) from the 160 remote.

If

What the hell is IF? Remotes use IR (Infrared) or RF Radio Frequency. Or do you call it IF when it uses both IR and RF?

Sorry meant to say IR. I'm going to return 8910 to Amazon.
I'm going to try out a Kameleon in a few minutes.
Less buttons than an 8910.

TS-160 has obviously not touched a Samsung TS-160 or works for either Hughes or Sony. Everything he says is false. I have a TS-160 and a plethera of learning remotes and even the cheap $24 radio shack ones had no problems learning the IR codes from the TS-160. Additionally, it is the ONLY HDTV Sat receiver I've found which can do simultaneous HD Signal to a component HD Television and NTSC composit or RF output to the rest of your house (trust me I'm doing it). TS-160 must not understand how to use learning remotes. The only issue I've had with mine is that it is such a NEW model that no Universal Remotes have out-of-the-box codes to support it (you must learn the codes on a learning remote)....