10 Jan
2024
10 Jan
'24
1:06 p.m.
OMG yes this would be great, how do I get in touch with them?
You know Mitch Altman did a lot of work in the infrared remote control space
for years, making the TV-B-Gone, which is a keychain remote that send the
ON/OFF button for every version of every manufacturer's remote control codes
in a sequence that takes about a minute!
There were even separate versions for US and EU because the popular brands
were so different, and you want the popular brands to come first.
For one or two years, the Macbook remote control was emulated too, and it
would tell the computer to go to sleep (the equivalent of closing the lid) but
then he took that out because computers do more good than harm, compared with
TVs which are just all bad.
I also know enough about remote controls to talk about them and can direct
them to talk to Mitch, who loves talking about stuff.
lets get some good publicity for sudoroom!
-jake
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024, Peter Mui via sudo-discuss wrote:
This email just came in as general inquiry on
repair.org:
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Hello,
I'm a writer working on a story for the Washington Post and am getting in
touch to see if The Repair Association might have someone who would be able
to speak to the story I'm working on.
The story is this: We're looking into how we wound up with so many remotes in
our homes. The story is a bit on the history and the "why" of why our
entertainment centers of the home have come to have a pile of remotes and why
they don't all work together, how it came to be this way. I'm looking for
experts who work on TVs and entertainment products that have an understanding
of why we're here and why there haven't been solutions that keep the consumer
in mind.
Thanks for any assistance you're able to provide.
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Does anyone here know how we arrived this cambrian explosion of IR remote
codes?
-Peter