Yamaha YHT-800 5.1-Channel DVD Changer Home Theater System

Rating:
Summary: Great Quality, excellent product Except the Remote Control
Review: I am not an audio expert but really liked the quality and features for both the receiver and the progressive scan DVD player. Speakers are good too. Some problems that I noticed during setup are:

1. For some reason the Yamaha Universal remote control that comes with 5540 AV receiver does not seem to control the Yamaha's own high end DVD player that came with YHT-800!! In fact, I had no problem programming Samsung DVD player with the Yamaha receiver.
2. The remote also does not work with Echostar (webtv) DishPlayer satellite decoder. So, I have to use three remotes - one for receiver, one for DVD and one for satellite box. The overall remote design is good though.
3. The s-video input signal on 5550 receiver only seems to work with Yamaha DVD. Worse even, it appears that you either need to connect all video components to S-video mode or all of them to RCA composite mode for Video-out-to-Monitor to work. My VCR has no S-video out. Hence, I had to use all RCA jacks and miss out on using high quality video output from my DVD and DBS box.

Overall, I like the YHT-800 system and hope to resolve remote control issues with Yamaha tech support. I hope I don't need to buy $150 learning remote from Yamaha.