I was looking at the universal remotes on amazon. While reading the revews I'm finding the following recent comments to be a theme with these remotes.

Don't buy from Amazon. Not an authorized seller. No warranty.

Buggy remote. Keeps losing it's programmed functions.

Requires special software that doesn't come with remote and you can't buy it.

The software that used to come with it doesn't come with it anymore.

Missing or inadequate instructions.