It's long been known that the remedy for a common case of remote clutter is the universal remote. However, when it comes to turning five remotes--or even more--into a single übercontroller for all that equipment stacked beneath your TV or in your towering audio rack, you have a lot of choices. Yes, they're all supposed to do the same thing, yet they all seem to go about it slightly differently and offer a variety of interfaces and designs. After testing more than a dozen models, CNET editors agreed on one thing: the remotes that use a PC interface to handle the setup chores are the way to go for anyone who's serious about home theater. If you like to customize, tweak, and manipulate, the computer interface--with a helpful assist from the Web--makes things a lot easier than punching endless codes into the numeric keypad. Yes, you'll be spending upward of $150 or more--sometimes much more--but these are the first contenders to seriously enable you to have just one magic wand on the coffee table. If the new Logitech Harmony and Sony aren't enough for you, stay tuned: we'll have reviews of new, Wi-Fi-enabled super-remotes from Universal Electronics (the Nevo SL) and Philips (the RC9800i) later this year.