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<blockquote data-quote="Liquidtouch" data-source="post: 153202" data-attributes="member: 47063">MCE RemoteI can not vouch for any other remote because the MCE remote is the only one I have used. I made my choice because I wanted something that would work with MythTV (Linux), MCE (M$) and Media Portal. Out of the 3 I have found I like media Portal the best and the MCE remote works great. The MCE IR Reciever is nice and has two IR blasters for controlling a set top box. I am planning on using those to control the volume on my reciever so that I can use the MCE remote almost exclusively. In the future I may upgrade to a universial remote and use the MCE IR receiver with it. All in all for the price you pay and what you get is well worth it.P.S. If your planning on using the MCE Remote with Windows XP Pro you may need to add an entry to the registry to get the remote to be able to wake up from standby. There are a couple of variations but the one I used is:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\usb]&quot;USBBIOSx&quot;=dword:00000000It now works perfectly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Liquidtouch, post: 153202, member: 47063"] [b]MCE Remote[/b] I can not vouch for any other remote because the MCE remote is the only one I have used. I made my choice because I wanted something that would work with MythTV (Linux), MCE (M$) and Media Portal. Out of the 3 I have found I like media Portal the best and the MCE remote works great. The MCE IR Reciever is nice and has two IR blasters for controlling a set top box. I am planning on using those to control the volume on my reciever so that I can use the MCE remote almost exclusively. In the future I may upgrade to a universial remote and use the MCE IR receiver with it. All in all for the price you pay and what you get is well worth it. P.S. If your planning on using the MCE Remote with Windows XP Pro you may need to add an entry to the registry to get the remote to be able to wake up from standby. There are a couple of variations but the one I used is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\usb] "USBBIOSx"=dword:00000000 It now works perfectly. [/QUOTE]

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