Okay, I'm officially pissed off at URC. I was installing a new bluray player for a client, and also a URC R6 remote. Apparently the remote is completely incapable of controlling the Samsung BD-D6500 bluray player. None of the device codes worked (the ones in the book or supplied by customer support), and I couldn't even get the remote to learn the commands sent by the device's remote! What the hell? I was able to get the R6 to understand the "up" command for the d-pad, but none of the others worked. Weird. And annoying. Bluray isn't even mentioned in the product manual.

Anyway, I eventually set the client up with a Harmony. It works fine, but I still want discrete codes. Frankly, it's in Logitech's best interest for device manufacturers to start offering publicly available discrete codes to their devices. The way the Harmony remote works, the end user doesn't even have to know the codes are there. All they need to know is that everything works every time.