Remote control for HTPC

[madwitte]

At the recommendation of this forum, I am building a HTPC with the following components:

1 each Intel Pentium E6300 Wolfdale 2.8GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor – Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091&Tpk=Intel%20Pentium%20E6300%20Wolfdale

1 each ASUS P5N7A-VM LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300/nForce 730i HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131348

1 each Lite ON DH-4O1S-73C Blu Ray 4x ROM OEM

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4685716&CatId=3634

2 each CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5 - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184&cm_re=ddr2_800-_-20-145-184-_-Product

4 each Western Digital WD7500AACS Caviar Green Hard Drive - 750GB, SATA-3G, 16MB, Intellipower

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4553291&CatId=139

1 each nMEDIAPC Red Wood Wood/Steel HTPC 8000 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811204039

1 each FSP Group Blue Storm Pro 500 500W ATX2.3 / EPS 12V 2.92 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104070

1 each Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116758

My question is this: I want to be able to control this system with a remote control. Which remote control and how do I make this happen? Thanks in advance for your assistance and feedback.

 

[Wolfshadw]

I use both of these remotes:

http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Control-Receiver-English-HDwr/dp/B0009ZBRRQ/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1253819174&sr=8-20

This remote is paired with this keyboard:
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Remote-Keyboard-Windows-ZV1-00004/dp/B000AOAAN8/ref=pd_bxgy_e_img_b

The other remote control I have is:

http://www.amazon.com/Pinnacle-Remote-Windows-Media-Center/dp/B000WR2E00/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1253818753&sr=8-22

Both work equally well.

 

[madwitte]

These look like they will work great! Thanks for the feedback!