can we talk about the lost art of remote control design and why modern remote feel like a bar of soap that can’t stay in your hand
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can we talk about the lost art of remote control design and why modern remote feel like a bar of soap that cant stay in your hand
Cause they were heavier
But I swear your typical boomer setup requires like 5 different remotes, of which you can find a maximum of 3 at the same time
A proper boomer setup has a 90s high tech universal remote
Most modern hardware has HDMI and CEC so remotes are redundant.
for me it's when you drop it from a height of one foot and the cover goes flying off and both batteries are flung to opposite sides of the universe
>the little tab thar holds the cover in place breaks and now you have to tape the back on
>It never gets replaced and your family now uses this remote for 15 years and every couple of months you have to replace the tape
Damn we really be living the same lives
the battery cover of an old tv remote has been missing for years now and i don't know where the frick it went
Did you check between the sofa cushions?
kek
for me, it's
>One day the remote goes missing and you spend 30 minutes trying to find it (it's gone forever)
>it's just gone
>the next day you find it in the kitchen (bonus points if it's in the toilet)
Is this Cinemaphile or Cinemaphile?
They’re TV, firestick and blu ray player remotes all Cinemaphile related because how else can you watch your kino?
I'm not a gay or anything, but I really like the Apple TV remote. It's totally minimalist and kinda perfect.
I have that little Sony one for a blu-ray player with that unwanted Netflix button that fricks everything up everytime I hit it by mistake.
The art was lost a long time ago.
Should've made play/pause/ rewind/f-forward buttons bigger.
I had that Sony VCR
It’s a great one. Even has the shuttle knob
This is literally the three tvs I recall my family owning in chronological order.
We were all fricking stoked for that LG.
Very nice, let's see your load outs anons.
You know what you have to do if you drop the remote, anon. heh heh
I'm about to buy to a new TV. I was already leaning towards an LG, but what put it over the top is they're the only major player that still has number pads on their TV remotes. It's crazy to me that companies are making televisions without remotes with a single-step mechanism to change the channel.
>channel
It’s bc 90% of people don’t channel watch anymore anon they just hit the Netflix/prime/hbo button and binge watch
Or scroll through tubi/Pluto where channels don’t matter
"Everyone is moronic" is little consolation.
If you have cable channel TV these days you probably have a box with a separate input and that has a numbered remote.
Look in your manual and check that your remote is in bluetooth mode. Usually it can be switched by holding down some buttons for a few seconds, like the menu button. If it lights up red on a button press it is probably in IR mode.
I remember we used to have a VCR with a squat little remote that was wider than it was tall, and the remote had a little LCD display in the top-left corner, primarily so you could type in the little code numbers for each program that would be in TV guides, so it would automatically record them for you.
Can't for the life of me remember what brand it was, though, so I can't find a picture.
VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+ and ShowView
It was a cool little secret algorithm that made setting times for the VCR/VTR easy. Now in the time of streaming it's obsolete but it was very handy back then.
The problem is that if your vcr time wasn’t set JUST right you’d miss up to the first minute of the show
I remember a two-sided sony remote control. Simple and detailed side. funny stuff.
You get what you pay for. Buy a gud universal remote and learn all its features. Also, build a HTPC and get a wireless keyboard for it.
anon, please try explaining a HTPC to your grandparents.
A compooter plugged into your teevee. It enables the user quickly use the Cinemaphile screen as they would a pc.
I am more of PTHC guy myself if you catch my drift.
Personal Theater Home Computer?
sick pervert
>1:11
I fricking hate LG remotes so much. So awkward to hold and navigate.
I still have an LG TV that uses the one on the right and I hate it.
I hate when the button bar gets lost and I'm too lazy to switch channels
Wait to find out what they did to cellphones...
something something refinement culture something.
>be picrel
>be used under blanket
>for whatever reason, only the round selector buttons work under a blanket, but the pause and volume buttons don't
WTF is this? Does Jeff Bezos get a boner out of people getting cold hands? I want to pause a video while my hands are under a blanket you fricking homosexual.
Just buy a blanket with sleeves. I had to because I'm forced to use 3 different remotes if I feel like watching TV, and there's no way all of the buttons would work otherwise.
>it's so cold you can't take your hand out of the blanket
where the frick do you live, siberia?
Because infrared is being used for some of those functions and some of it is bluetooth I think. infrared hates interference with the line of sight.
>remote
>controller
>channel changer
>clicker
>zapper
>converter
It's weird how many different names these things have. This one family that used to babysit me called it "the box".
>feels like a bar of soap
My dad has one of those
For some reason I ended up with several at one point. Probably joke birthday presents or something, can't remember.
Nothing personal, kid.
>Go back
I wish I could. Back to a time when remotes had a VCR button.
Does any of the other buttons ever get used though. Unless it is programed to a dvd player too
>his remote has goyslop buttons
There's always something really funny about TV remotes with buttons like this. My parents blu-ray player has a button for Pandora and Blockbuster button
I feel like there's a short story in here somewhere. Anon accidentally presses the blockbusters button and gets sent back to the mid 80s.
>app updates
>buttons no longer work
>app stops working altogether after 5 years because they except you to upgrade now
Yeah I have an old Vizio HDTV that had shitty yahoo software in it with buttons to apps in the remote that don't even work anymore. Really stupid.
for me its this bad boy, the layout is burned into my muscle memory. every iteration of comcasts remotes have only gotten worse. Although i havent had cable in over 10 years since i moved out and am only updated when my parents get a new one.
Last remote I actually channel surfed with.
What I want to know is why the frick does my roku remote drain batteries like a cumbawd drains a wiener? Duracells rated for 10 years I'll be lucky to get 6 months out of.
They shouldn’t even exist. If it’s a smart tv just give me an app
>Want to turn the volume down
>Let me just unlock my phone
>Find the app icon, click on it
>Wait for the app to open
>Now I can tap the volume button!
Literally couldn't be simpler.
Wow 2-3 seconds slower. Might even be faster considering how shit and slow remotes are
Crucial seconds when you're trying to quieten that sex scene in the movie.
But you accidentally hit rewind and then play just as the moaning starts. Frick sex scenes, no film was ever improved by one. They only serve to embarrass teenage boys.
boomers used remote controls as status symbols: if your coffee table had more remote controls, it meant you were big cheese
foxtel (AU cable) was shit but this iteration of their remote was literal perfection
That's the same as BitBong's sky remote with some minor changes. Murdoch isn't stupid
Awesome thread OP. Allowed me to reminisce about the TV days of my youth and the beauty Zenith remote I had in my bedroom. Pic rel was fantastic. Felt great in my right hand and was able to work everything by thumb without looking.
>bonus nostalgia: watching Ch 45 Mxcess porno and having some age appropriate channel ready on the Flash Back button in case someone came in the room.
We were Kings.
Anyone else put electrical tape over the buttons they dont use?
I have the LG one on the far right. It's pretty good, it's basically a Wiimote
I still have cable so I have one of these as well as a firestick remote
For me, it's a barely functional remote in a hotel room where the TV is only 18 inches but 20 feet away and has a random selection of channels and nothings on so you watch something on your phone and use all your data because you won't pay for the hotel wifi
Time Warner cable bros
We have tv sets without buttons. How long before we reach buttonless remotes?
We do it’s called phone apps
There used to be a button that would turn super loud israeli advertisements down. Roku and streaming has also destroyed the "back" or "last" button which is essential for football since its 95% commercials.