Been looking at the Harmony's but I came accross this at amazon.com

Quite frankly - I think, for your tasks, you'd be happy with this remote and save yourself a lot of dough!

The 8820 doesn't have a preset code for the current line of direct receivers, you'll have to teach it the commands. Unless you have HD tivo 10-250? In that case it does have the codes, in fact codes for tivo addresses 1-4.

The radio shack 15-100 is also made by the same company as one-for-all and a much better remote over-all for about the same price, and does have the directv code built in. It also has backlighting and an LCD display.

One thing that a Harmony will give you that most other "cheap" universal remotes won't is direct button mapping. By that I mean if you have an A B and C button on your cable box remote, you will have to map these to other named buttons on a "cheap" remote. On a Harmony you can just use the OSD and have a soft key called "A" so you know what you are pressing.

I used to have a cheaper Sony remote, and I don't know how many times my wife called me to have me walk here through getting everything setup properly. Since I know have Harmony remotes, I've never gotten a call from her because the usage is so intuitive. IMO they are well worth the money...

Very true. That's the trade-off for a $10-$15 remote. I personally dislike LCD remotes because I'd rather use my remote by feel and not have to look at it. To avoid the button mapping issue in this case, other cheap options are the 15-133 which has the colored buttons just like the DirecTV remote, and is backlit and 8-device like the 15-100. The 15-134 also has the colored buttons, but isn't backlit and is only 5-device. All are excellent cheap, learning remotes and have the DirecTV codes as well as macro capabilities for harmony-like activities.

I actually have two of these remotes controlling both my front room and my bedroom. Great little remote for the money and you can actually buy a clip and docking station for it through a third party company to be able to program it yourself (if you really wanted to). For the purpose of just normal remote use it is fine, however I would like to be able to control multiple items as once (not having to switch to audio to control volume, then back to pvr to control my OSD) so it has its draw backs but for a simple, easy to use and CHEAP remote it is worth it. You can pick them up at BB for the same price as Amazon.

If you're refering to the OFA urc-8820? With its use of advanced codes and keymoving you can setup a system device, where transport functions come from one device and volume from another and so on.

yeah I know that and have actually done it a couple of times. However, these remotes seem to be the favorite snack for my dogs (OP be WARNED!) so I have gotten to the point where I just dont even bother anymore.

That's unusual for the sony codes not to work. What model do you have? My 20 year old sony works with 10000 and my 2 year old sony works with 11100.

I think 11100 should work for that one. Make sure you do code set, down arrow to id set, press TV at the mode prompt, OK, 11100, OK.

Glad everything else is working. 21769 is the right code, but apparently it's not built in to the 15-100. In this case you'll have to learn the toshiba hd a3 buttons. I wouldn't bother learning all of them (like the numbers), just the ones you think you'll use. Post back if you need any advanced codes for your other devices, like discrete on/off or input selections.

Who would spend $15 for a remote..!
Get out of here.
My local Big Lots is Selling the Hermione 880 for $7.
This remote is like magic.
That is almost 50% off.