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This remote is awesome. I had the mark one and if you think the mark two eats up batteries you are mistaken. Keep the light and beep off and you can go months. I did learn to use ONLY the Duracell Ultra Life Batteries though. They do make a difference believe it or not. I bought an open box HDTV without a remote and took my Marantz in to program it from a display tvs remote. It picked up everything. I will upgrade to the next Marantz once they become a little more reasonable on the price. I have horrible luck with Phillips/Magnovox products but this remote is a champion.

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RC2000 Mark 1, Home Theater Master

The days of scrambling to find the right remote controls in the dark in the middle of the movie when my home phone starts ringing are over for me when I bought the RC200MkII remote control and the god of all of the remote controls it is. It does virtually everything that my other remotes do and lots more (macro commands,sounds familiar?). If you are sick of having at least a dozen of remote controls spreading all over your family room. Do yourself a big favor! Get this baby. I am glad I did! I paid $200 for mine from OneCall. Heartily recommended

the best remote.go and buy one.

I love everything about this remote except for two things.
1. It does not control my dish network receiver since it has the UHF commands for the remote functions. (I'll have to go out and buy their cheap receiver now since that one has IR)

2. To my knowledge, it doesn't disable the back-light feature when there is enough ambient light for one to see the display. The old Marantiz remote did thus saving battery life.

If anyone has a cheap fix to any of these two scenarios please let me know.

Thanks

This baby comes with the Marantz 780 receiver. It is unquestionably the best remote on the market. I loved it so much I bought it for my system(i paid $200). It has it all. It will run everything you have. It's also better than the last Mark I. The Mark II is the ultimate controller!

I thought my PBJ cables were the best investment I could make for my system. Then I thought the addition of my Proceed DAP was it. But now I know I was wrong on both counts. The RC2000mkII is, without question, the finest addition I have made to my system, and it costs less than the cables!
My wife no longer has to track me down to tell her how to make something work right. Man, if SHE can operate it... I had EIGHT different remotes that are now comfortably put away in a drawer. Everything is done by the 2000. It was a little testy to program initially, but after just a few minutes it became easy. I spent about an hour and a half with it. Now I can make it operate anything in my system. The light function can even be set to come on only when you push the light button, then go off in a few seconds so as to conserve batteries. This thing does it all. Even if you have to pay the full retail price of $250, it's still a bargain. If you have several remotes laying around, you gotta have one of these.

I have a problem with the Marantz RC2000 MK2. I just got the B&K Ref10 preamplifier and it comes with the SL9000 remote control. I wasn't all that thrilled with the SL9000, so I purchased the Marantz. I got all my equipment programmed into the Marantz, except for one button. The Marantz remote will not learn the SL9000 Sat button. This button is used to turn on the RCA satellite and switch the preamplifier input for satellite viewing. What this means is, that if you were playing a CD and you wanted to go to the satellite, you cannot switch your input. I can switch between all my other inputs, but not the satellite. If anybody has any information about this, please let me know.Rate 3 could be 5 if I can find a fix.

Tnank You, Bob H.

I have had the RC2000 mk II since about a week after it shipped and i must say that it has been the most incredible saving grace for me. No more fumbling around for remotes, no more "How the heck do i use this stereo to listen to a damn cd?" It is easy to program, easy to use and worth every penny (I paid $200).

I finally got the Marantz after considering the HK Take Control (a new touchscreen universal remote - street $275), the Universal Remote 9000 (street - $150), and the Producer 8 (street - $100). I wanted a universal remote that had the ability to control everything _well_ as opposed to simply being "able" to do it. The H/K is set up directly (incl. macros and 'special screens') via Win95 computer. IOW, instead of learning (which it can do), the H/K is programmed by connection to a computer. The problem with the H/K is that the touchscreen has no tactile response, and therefore the feedback is virtually nil. The Marantz, on the other hand, is extremely good vis-a-vis feedback, with or without the 'confirmation beep.' In addition, the feel of the buttons is as good or better than any standard remote I've gotten with any product, audio or video. The RC2000/II is well-made, well-designed and simply to operate. My only complaint is not with the RC but with all 'learning' remotes. I have five remotes, each of which has at least 40 to 65 buttons. As others here mentioned, an hour and a half is about what it took for me to get everything (I think) up and running. I'm pretty sure I forgot a few buttons or a few small/minor inputs for my receiver (an H/K 75), but overall I think I got everything I need programmed. While I disliked the initial set-up (which, admittedly, was pretty easy), I really liked the fact that the special screens Marantz provides for each of your components really hit the mark: the amp settings, especially, made the learning process very simple. Overall, when I considered getting a Universal Remote, I envisioned using it, not programming it. Thanks to a pretty decent learning experience and set-up, Marantz has ensured that I'll spend my time _using_ the remote rather than _programming_ it.It cost $207 w/ shipping from OneCall (highly recommended, as usual) and I definitely am glad I got it.
One final note: the inclusion of the four required 'AA' batteries is yet another nice touch -- it's a good, well-made, well-designed product that any home theater-phile _must_ have.

...five speakers...

Marantz RC2000 Mark 2 Home Theater Universal Remote
I have been searching for the ultimate universal remote and I've think I've found it. It controlled everthing I needed to control. I have the Home Theatre 8 AV remote but it only controlled certain functions and didn't have any kind of joystick function for the DVD player. I've looked at the Universal Home Theatre SL-9000 but it didn't have enough buttons to control everything I wanted(didn't have trasport controls separate from the circular joystick buttons). I prefer a tactile response to remotes such as the touch screens of the Phillips Pronto or the Harman Kardon/Microsoft remote. Programming it was no problem to me as I was familiar with learning remotes. My first learning remote was a pretty good one I had many years ago from Radio Shack which looked like and old Texas Instruments TI-30 calculator and all the buttons looked alike(ergonomic nightmare). Those who may be intimidated by the programming shouldn't be.

What I don't like is that the remote is not well balanced. The most often used buttons(vol., channel, numeric keypad) are in the lower part of the remote. The batteries are in the top half of the remote. You then have to balance the remote which is biased toward the front. I also don't like the fact that there was no way to erase the unused functions on the LCD screen. I did read an earlier review saying that blank spaces were inserted. I'll have to try that.

All in all an exellent remote and the last you'll probably ever need and well worth the money.