Worst remote nomination...

While I have extensive experience with both direct tv and dish network, the one (and only!) comparitive thing I hate about dish is....the remotes. I have several sitting in a drawer someplace as they have a really hard time lasting more than 18-24 months.

I have, for one reason or another, been through three dish network receivers (two of which are currently in use) and I have only one good remote left. I shal soon be upgrading to dish network High Definition, so I get a couple of more remotes. Lucky me.

Old Marantz CD-65 CD changer remote. It's a ultra thin membrane remote. The damned thing broken on the second week. After replacing it under warranty, it broke again in less than 3 months. Gave up and used the universal remote instead.

The remote on my early Shanling CD-T100. This was the same as the one on the early CD-25 that Mwilson and others mention above. It was truly a tough remote to use. To my shame, I did not point this out in my review of the player, which later got about 3,000 hits. I thought the button layout was fine, but I never mentioned how hard it actually was to push them.

I should add that I hardly ever use a remote anyway. (You'd think that would be a good reason not to emit an opinion, but no... .)

I managed with that remote when I had to, and the company later pulled it in favour of a much better one. There is another remote I still have two of, though, that I hate to use: the Cambridge CD-4's remote has the least intuitive layout I have ever seen. I feel like I'm learning it all over again each time I have to touch it.

Wadia 861 try handing it to someone who never used it before they are totally Lost because of the non standard weird icons they use should have actual words would really help. Oh and all Wadia remotes eat batteries like crazy.

NAD T550 DVD remote. I just donated the whole unit to the local shelter that needed one. The remote is so bad I feel a little guilty about it.