The MCE remote is fairly cheap (£20) considering you get a decent remote, IR receiver and two extender things to control STBs
- In my experience works out the box with MP (and other software) without having to resort to HIP etc
- Remote is of good quality
- You can use remote to control volume on seperate AMP
- Allows you to add MCE keyboard which is dead handy with its extra media buttons
All in all I would recomend this