Not a fan of the official remote. But there doesn't seem to be other options out there. Bumping any button turns on your system. Annoying. In order to turn it off, you have to hold in a button and then scroll to "Turn System Off". Annoying. Many of the buttons are just cosmetic. For instance, the play and pause buttons are the exact same buttons. And I can't remember off the top of my head, but I think there is another button or two that are the same as well.
Still, it's better than using the controller for media. There is nothing worse than sitting the controller down only to accidentally bump the trigger and start fast forwarding or rewinding. Still, I wish Sony would make a better remote. One that is more like a real remote, and less like a controller mapped to a remote. My system gets more use as a BluRay Player than anything else, so these little details are pretty annoying.