Trouble: Your remote is not able to change channels on your digital box, bring up the guide, or anything else pertaining to controls of the digital box. You've swapped batteries, you've changed boxes, you've changed remotes.
Culprit: Your plasma TV is emitting enough radiation to cause prostate cancer. The EMF (Electromagnetic Field) being put off that TV is making your microwave jealous. Your remote IR beam that sends signals to your box is hitting a wall of electrical interference like a waterhose trying to push upstream through a river.
The Fix(TM): This is a two-fer. Do both of these. First, move the digital box/Tivo/Dish reciever, etc as far away as possible from the offending television. Secondly, somewhere in the menu of the TV should be the controls for the backlight. You'll want to turn that down as low as possible without suffering picture quality loss. Once the backlight is cooled a bit, you'll find your remote to be operational again.
Caveats: The only thing to be aware of (short of having to wear a lead vest at TV time) is that your batteries will burn out faster than the average user. Your batteries are strong right now, but as they weaken, the IR will weaken. When that reaches a certain point, you'll be back to these same problems. This will take less time, as the radiation from the TV may force that issue faster than if there was no TV pushing back.
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