Universal Remote Controls

[TEAK36]

Does anyone know if these are any good?

I have the usual TV, DVD Player, VHS player, SKY Digibox, and am fed up with using separate remote controls for them.
I know you can buy the Universal Remotes for the TV, DVD, and VHS, but do any work with a standard SKY Digibox, and if so, are there any that are clever enough to access the SKY TV Guide so that I can scroll through what is on TV?

[vehelpfulguy]

You can easily set your Sky remote to do all your TV actions.

Look in the back of the Sky book that came with the Sky box.

With our Sky remote we can turn the TV on and off, turn the TV volume up and down, change TV channels, and even switch to EXT1 EXT2 on the TV and so on.

[jenky]

I went for one of the kameleon 6-in-1 range (with the illuminated blue touch screen). Any commands or brands it didn't have stored can be taught easily enough - you put it in learn mode, then point the old remote at it and press the function you wan't it to learn.
It has been a great purchase so far. However... they are not cheap and I have 2 sets of rechargable batteries that need swapping every 4 weeks or so.
It currently controls digi-box and hard drive, cd player, dvd player, amp and tv - with the screen configuration changing depending on the appliance you select.

[jake-the-peg]

Hmmm
I have one of those too the first one looked like this:
http://images.iwoot.com/medium/kamrem_med.gif
ate batteries and hummed - I hated it.

Got it replaced with a later model that looked like this:
http://www.avukltd.com/images/big/8206.gif

Which was miles better. As jenky says you can teach it any signal and reprogram buttons.

Mine controls the TV, Video, DVD-PVR and Surround Sound amp. Don't know about SKY - I dont use it but I'd be amazed if it didn't

If only they made one that bleeped when you whistled like those old keyrings!