Mainly wondering because although I can probably live without a tuner. I do fancy the idea of the Sony stick remote control, but I dont want to lose my only serial port for this.

On the tuner box itself is a mini headphone jack that the Sony stalk plugs into. If you don't have the tuner you could rig up the stalk to connect to the serial port.

So if I want to use both the serial port AND the Sony stick, I either get myself a tuner (sems unlikely now..) or lump it and lose my serial port?

Cheers

Dave