Walk, dammit, WALK!
Or else...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Repair-your-remote-controls/
Our Panasonic TV Remote started getting really assholey a few months ago, read somewhere that some remotes give up the ghost fairly easily and this was one of them. Ordered a replacement model, got a DIFFERENT model, but it worked anyway.
But that's for one of those plasma TVs that has all, literally all, of the controls buttons on the side where even if you do walk up to the tv, you can't find anything except for back in there, so in this case, yeah, remote desired. But my CD player? Geez, I've used it, like...never and a half times?
Walk. Unless you're stove up or something, in which case, sorry, no offense.