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    Cool The Universal Remote Is Streaming’s Most Tragic Casualty

    The Universal Remote Is Streaming’s Most Tragic Casualty

    - Universal remotes promised to simplify controlling TV entertainment centers. Then streaming happened.


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    The living room was a very different place before apps. TVs used to ship with more than one physical switch or button, you frequently needed a receiver if you wanted to use multiple home theater appliances at once, and juggling all of the various components of your living room usually fell to a remote.


    The universal remote, with its programmable buttons and routines, was the savior of complicated setups, but one that, thanks to streaming boxes, the rise of streaming services, and the mass adoption of smart TVs, doesn’t really have much of a place in most homes in 2023.


    But hangers-on exist even if remotes have been replaced with casting protocols and pack-in flingers with paid product placement buttons. Companies are still making universal remotes, and the faithful are miraculously still buying them.


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    Well my ROKU remote turns the TV On and Off as well as organizing all my streaming services.

    The old remote is for Volume control and the few channels I get up here through an HD antenna.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Well my ROKU remote turns the TV On and Off as well as organizing all my streaming services.

    The old remote is for Volume control and the few channels I get up here through an HD antenna.
    If you upgrade then the new ROKU remotes also have volume control and a mute button.
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    When it got to the point where I could afford to buy a TV, I picked the TV based on how the remote felt in my hand. This was all pre-digital. Back in the day when you just plugged the cable into the back of the TV and the cable channels just appeared.

    I was a happy man then.


    Then, the cable box and a universal remote. Now, I have TIVOs that I own, with cable cards. I like the TIVO remote. It is very much like that second picture. TIVO invented the DVR technology, I believe.
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    Smart TV w/remote.
    DirecTV service w/remote
    GOAT Streaming, w/remote.
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    The Cox Contour (cable/dvr) remote brings in most things, and then I need the Firestick to access the channels we've subscribed to through Amazon, like Paramount+, Disney+ and True Royalty. Many channels I can access through either, but if I call a show up through one it will remember what episode I watched the last time and take me to the next one, whereas if I call it up with the other remote it has no idea.

    A while back, out of curiosity, I tried using my late sister's Firestick on my set and screwed absolutely everything up. The TV locked onto the settings and subscriptions she'd had and kicked me out everything I should have been able to watch. I had to call Firestick customer service in India to get it straightened out; fortunately the person I got spoke excellent English, knew exactly what to do and fixed it remotely in a matter of a couple of minutes.
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    When I think universal remote I think more than just a TV and TV + internet. Add in a separate really good sound system with really great speakers. I never went universal. I use the separate remotes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    When I think universal remote I think more than just a TV and TV + internet. Add in a separate really good sound system with really great speakers. I never went universal. I use the separate remotes.
    Years ago, at the old firm. I was in a deposition and the receptionist buzzed in. (that was back when they actually came to the office) She said I had a call and I told her I was in a deposition. She said it was my daughter. I repeated that I was in a deposition. She said it was an emergency, so I stepped out into a side conference room. As it turns out.... the TV had gotten on a different input and neither she, nor her sister nor the wife could get it back to the cable TV.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Years ago, at the old firm. I was in a deposition and the receptionist buzzed in. (that was back when they actually came to the office) She said I had a call and I told her I was in a deposition. She said it was my daughter. I repeated that I was in a deposition. She said it was an emergency, so I stepped out into a side conference room. As it turns out.... the TV had gotten on a different input and neither she, nor her sister nor the wife could get it back to the cable TV.
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