We bought a Sony “Wega” with a remote. The device has buttons marked “VCR/DVD”–a power button (green) and a function button (pale white). I have found that once I program the remote to use the DVD player, the VCR code that I had entered, has apparently been erased. The store and the manufacturer seem to be avoiding answering my question. Inasumuch as the back of the set is fitted with jacks and other connections to accommodate both of the other devices, why can’t I use the TV’s remote to control both of them? 
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You have to press the button on the remote to “tell” it which device you want to use. Unless there are separate buttons for the DVD player and the VCR, you’re basically stuck with using it for one or the other, since the corresponding device button has only a single memory location to hold the device code. I would purchase an aftermarket remote which supports all the functions you’d use on all the devices you wish to control, and program that to control each device you have connected.
I would be content to do that, QED. My Mom seems to want to do everything with one remote…
Here’s a genuine “sniglet”: VIDEO K. CORRALL: "The gunslinger feeling you get when armed with a TV remote in one hand and a VCR remote in the other.: 
Today I programmed the “universal” remote control we bought from Radio Shack to operate the Zenith VCR. (We had used this same remote and the same VCR before, with the older set. Why it had ceased working with the same Zenith VCR I have no idea.)
The universal remote has separate controls for TV, VCR, and DVD, so I can controll all three with the same universal remote. This betokens “memory” in the universal remote that the Sony TV remote did not have. 