Comment by dfe

I've only had batteries leak in remotes left unused for over a year. I just pick up Duracell or whatever is at Costco.

I've also bought two replacement remotes off of Amazon in the past year, one Samsung and one Insignia. I think they were $15-20 each, which seemed very reasonable to me.

Generally they won't have the manufacturer's logo, but everything else on the outside looks 100% identical, and all the buttons worked.