Hello, I know that VCR's and other equipement of SONY, uses the SIRCS protocol. I have written a uni-directional protocolconvertor RS232 --> SIRCS for the PIC16C63. It works, except for a delay of 1s between the first frame and the following ones. Besides this 'very irritating, but little' problem it works perfectly. I can control all of the Sony IR devices. I also have many links, timing-shedules, device- and buttoncodes for you if you like them.