It's not acutally SideShow, just an external display.  Looks great for browsing music library and such, but I'm not sure it has the level of functionality that a true SideShow remote would.  However, for the price your right.

But it will eventually be a SideShow remote. :-) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2235989,00.asp

about $110 shipped from amazon.

I like the look and button placements, looks like an easy remote to use (high res pic)

i guess this is a learnable remote, so no need for an IR blaster...but, since I use this with my satellite STB, would a "channel up" command be able to send a channel change to both the STB and vista MCE?

if using a stb you need the ms IR receiver with the blasters to change the stb channel when using it with media center.

it's a pretty good looking remote as it goes, but the mono display isn't doing it for me.  even when sideshow does have something useful to say for itself the mono display is going to be a stumbling block for me personally.