I've seen a lot of people complain about this and that brand's support for discrete commands, but IMHO, Philips is the KING. The king of the No Discretes kingdom that is.
If you take a look (you probably already have) you'll see there's not even a single entry (for Philips) in the discretes file database here:
[Link: remotecentral.com]Anyway, I've seen some discretes for their TVs but that's about it.
Bruno