TV Remotes!

What is the world coming to.  You now have to have some sort of box attached to your TV or you get no channels.  Living in the country, there is no cable.  Like the man says, "You have to have telephone poles before you get cable."  We do have telephone poles but they go through the woods.  When we moved here we had an antenna and all the equipment.  It worked great as long as someone was holding it up on top of the roof.  Bob could only do it for so long.  So next was a satellite dish.  It was so nice, until they handed me the remote.  Now this remote can handle the DVD player, the TV, the satellite and any other thing you have connected to the TV.  Yea, right!  I have three different remotes now.  Don't lose one or nothing works. Then the other problem, you have to know how to use them.  The TV must be on a certain channel before you can program it to play something else, and don't hit the wrong button in the wrong sequence because then nothing works, and you need a kid around to figure out what you did!  Mckenzie!.....