That's one of my pet peeves as well. I don't think that one of my televisions has more than five buttons on it. Just about everything uses some form of navigation key set now, like cell phones. Like Greg said, the manufacturers aren't making things to appeal to us geezers anymore. If it doesn't interface like a cell phone does, the younger crowd won't have anything to do with it.
One thing that I do find amusing though is the new wave of cell phones with full keyboards. When I got mine two years ago, my teenage son laughed at me for not knowing how to send text messages. Now everyone is getting them. I guess in that instance, the manufacturers did come back to doing things the "right" way.
