Hey Chris,
Good observation. Thanks for the info. I did not realize that the Apple TV had
a remote that worked in that nature. Could it be, on all these other devices,
that it is a Bluetooth connection. Like yourself, I realize that the Fire TV is
a battery hog. At least, in my experience. Just making an observation. Thanks
again for that info. I had the Roku at one time, but I don’t think it used
batteries quite as much as the fire stick. Thanks again,
Michael
On Dec 1, 2021 at 7:55 AM, <Christopher Gilland
(mailto:clgilland07@xxxxxxxxx)> wrote:
One huge gripe I have about most streaming devices' remotes like the Rocu,
the Fire TV, etc is the way they're powered. They usually have 2 either
double A, or tripple A batteries. I know, one may say, oh, cry me a river boo
hoo hoo. It's just such a sad little life ain't it, Chris. But really
seriously, I get you can get rechargeable batteries, or extended lifetime
batteries like Inergizer, etc, but at the end of the day, though it may take
a while, I'm gonna be brutally honest. It's not as long as you may think
before they run low/dead. For example, in my fire TV remote that came with my
Toshiba Fire TV, I think within probably a month, if that, maybe a month and
a half at most, I ran a brand new set of batteries, just torn from the pack,
and popped in the remote dead within about that time limit. It gets really
expensive having to buy batteries frequently for all my remotes. What I don't
spend in cable TV from cutting the cord, I now make up for in buying stupid
batteries. This is one thing about the Apple TV that I absolutely love love
love love! I know at times, I've said Apple can't with some things seem to
get anything right, but I've gotta hand it to them. This is one exception
where they really did! indeed do something majorly right in my opinion. I
absolutely love the fact that the remotes have a rechargeable battery like a
phone. You just pop it on the charger when you're not using the thing, and
then you never ever have to worry about the thing running dead. Now of corse,
as anything, the battery will die eventually, yeah, I get that, but come on!
I've had my Apple TV remote now for almost 5 years, and I've not even once
yet had to replace the remote nor the battery itself. That's way better than
changing batteries every 2 or so months in my opinion.. That said, are there
any universal remotes I could get that will work with most streaming devices
which *do?* charge like the Apple TV remotes? Chris.
