The Smarthome 59502 IR Receiver Kit can help keep your audio/video components neatly behind entertainment center doors or in an equipment closet. Control up to eight hidden components - your cable or satellite TV receiver, stereo receiver or amplifier, CD player, DVD player, Blu-ray player or virtually any component controlled by an IR signal. You can mount this IR receiver on the side of your television and it receives the IR signals from an existing remote control and distributes those signals via IR emitters to A/V components.