Mark needs a Pronto

Mark bought a home theater. It has a gazillion buttons with a billion remotes no doubt. I have the same problem.

My problems were solved with a Pronto remote. It's extremely geeky in that you can (have to) program it for hours to make it work well. However, you can create a small simple minded UI on it, which most of the other remotes fail to do. It is also easier to program macros and stuff like that. Best of all it has a huge community (http://www.remotecentral.com) around it who have done most of the work and you just need to customize their existing screens.

If you're a real geek you can download the application and run the simulator before you buy.