Universal Remote

July 5th, 2006

My god, I’m a sucker for marketing traps (aka gullible). Yesterday I got a newsletter email from Philips, discussing the 42PF9831 (you might have seen me write about it). Ofcourse I read it, thinking “oh well”, but they also discussed a universal remote. No, not Click (baaaaaad movie), but the SRU9600.

Today I bought one online…

Justified it as being in preparation for all the new stuff I’m gonna buy when moving into my new apartment :)


This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 16:13 and is filed under Gadgets.

3 Responses to “Universal Remote”

  1. Leon Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 10:44

    I’ve asked Philips for a list of the 1100 systems it can operate last friday.
    I’ve seen many of these “universal” remotes, most of them happen to miss a lot of systems in their database. Sure, you could use the “learn from other remote” function, but I aint paying like €90 just to spend evenings with several remotes on the table getting frustrated because I can’t get the universal one to accept the “hold down fast forward” function.

  2. Leon Says:
    July 12th, 2006 at 11:42

    Update:
    Philips responded they dont have a list, but I could use the learing function.
    Yeah, duh.

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