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mini-rant about indispensable remote controllers

Why do some manufacturers of TVs and DVD players design their products so that the device is virtually useless without the remote? *sigh* My flatmate has an otherwise cool DVD/VCR but because he's lost his remote, we can't do anything with it but the bare minimum. Samsung says as much on its website. How many other people have equipment which has been orphaned from its remote and is thereby maimed? Having just been through a major move, I can say that it's fairly difficult to lose a DVD player, but quite easy to lose a remote controller, especially when there are so many of them around. The easiest solution would be if manufacturers always provided a way to access the menu on the actual machine.

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Augh! You're not wrong.

What about when you have a remote that operates equipment other than the ones it should? I have two VCRs and one remote operates both. A pain if you happen to hit record and it records over something on the other machine...

You could always put velcro on them and physically stick them to the machine!

Are you sure that a universal remote won't work for the DVD/VCR? A certain spouse of mine lost track of the satellite remote while I was away, so I went to Radio Shack and bought a universal one, and while it doesn't do every single feature for every single device, it does the basic functions for all of them

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