and Telecommunications distance is okay, as long as you are there around the house a home improvement that you can install, if too remote, no way .. what the price of broadband are similar everywhere, just to see incentives .
If you felt Logitech's Xbox 360 remote was just too focused for your tastes, the Harmony 1000 should provide the depth and breadth you're craving in a universal remote.
If I'd been hoping to bump into Tom Hanks jogging on the beach, the location was much tooremote, but as a retreat from civilization, it did quite nicely.