Abstract— With the rapid development of digital TV and
deployment of set-top boxes, standardizing remote controllers for
both digital TV and set-top box has become an issue for digital
TV operators, set-top box producers and remote controller
manufacturers. This paper presented a novel method to solve the
incompatibility problem among different digital TV sets, set-top
boxes and remote controllers. This novel method tries to cater
digital TV sets and set-top boxes to remote controllers instead of
designing a universal standardized remote controller for digital
TV sets and set-top boxes. The benefits of the new method are
shown by comparison of the novel solution with the universal
remote controller based method. Some design guidelines for the
proposed method are also presented in this paper.