The Vivitek remote control is about average size, black with backlit buttons that are a soft red with a slight orange caste, not too bright or too dim.
From the top, you'll find separate power on, and power off buttons.
Right below are 5 buttons, cleverly labeled 1 through 5. These are your Source control buttons. Instead of pre-assigning them HDMI 1, 2, etc. Vivitek lets you go into the menu system and select which source to assign to each button. I stuck with the defaults which made button #1 (Vivitek calls it Key 1) HDMI 1, #2, HDMI 2, #3 Component Video 1, and so on.
It should be noted that when you power up, the Vivitek's normal process is to return to the last source that was selected.
Moving down the remote control, next is the navigation area, with the four arrow keys in a round formation with Enter in the center. Just below to the left, is the Menu button to open the navigation, and to the right is a single button to select aspect ratio.
Below that are three buttons for User Memory modes, to directly recall them. They are labeled A, B, and C on the remote control.
Further down are buttons for direct access to adjustments: Contrast, Brightness, and Sharpness in the first row, then Gamma, Overscan (nice, the projector offers a choice of Overscan or Cropping should you have edge noise, as sometimes happens with HDTV. On the right side of that row is the Noise Reduction.
The bottom row has Brilliant Color (toggles between on and off), Color Temp, and on the right, Test which brings up black white, and each primary and secondary, a checkerboard, and a fine black and white mesh test patterns.
