[opendtv] Re: Remote controls -- where's the outrage?
- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 04:59:42 -0700
These are all good suggestions, but are applicable to only 0.001%
of the viewing audience. Why are these extreme measures necessary?
How come the CE industry can't get its act together?
At 11:55 PM 10/5/2004, Kon Wilms wrote:
>Henry Baker wrote:
>> The DirecTV remote is better than two remotes, but it still has
>> a significant problem -- if you want to turn on the TV, you have
>> to change "modes" on the remote to be talking to the TV. If you
>> make a mistake and hit the on/off button while talking to the
>> DirecTV box, it turns the DirecTV box off. Even worse, if you
>> change channels while in the "TV" mode, it switches away from
>> Channel 3 (or "video1"), so you end up watching snow.
>>
>> Why is producing an easy-to-use remote so difficult? We have
>> a TiVo box, and they seemed to have gotten the problem solved
>> better than the standard DirecTV remote.
>
>Just an idea, or suggestion, or whatnot -- we recently moved and the
>current house was initially wired for cable distribution. I installed
>the tivo, disconnected the cableco from the wire, and used their wiring
>to feed the tivo's signal around the house. I have 900Mhz IR to RF
>converters next to each set I use. One tivo remote controls any of them.
>If you want to lay some more cash out, get the IR sensors that sit
>inline on the RF feed and use OOB frequencies to send commands back to
>the central STB.
>
>> state by using a constant signal pattern. Similarly, the exact
>> same signal switches among the different inputs to the TV, so
>> you end up cycling through them. So the basic IR protocols are
>> defective.
>
>To be fair some TVs have multiple levels for their menus - i.e. level 1
>gives you the input menu, keep pressing the same button to cycle the
>inputs. However when you have level 1's menu onscreen, you can also pick
>an input directly. I used that to get around the problem. As for the
>learning and intelligent remotes, its quite easy to create a virtual
>'on' button as well as 'off' button, and tie macros to each one
>(something you want to do because you dont want to be waiting a few
>seconds to turn the tv back on while the macros are firing off into
>lalaland).
>
>Cheers
>Kon
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