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Posted on 05/22/2012 11:44:26 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
CHICAGO (AP) -- Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.
Just ask anyone who's lost a remote.
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RIP.
It was really great when the advance button got stuck.
I don’t recall the separate button (on the three button version). But a search did show a 4-button with all white buttons (not the yellow one). I don’t recall having a yellow button on ours.
I wonder what our kids will be talking about in 50 years? I know some are probably not even familiar with music on CD’s anymore!
Heh. My radio is up on a shelf above my desk just out of reach. When I get a phone call I turn the radio off with a ruler!
I had that exact model when I lived in Maynard, MA up until 1989. I could pull in signals from Providence and Manchester, both about 50 miles away.
His wife had to pry the remote from his cold, dead hands, the coroner’s office reports. Funeral arrangements are private. Mr. Polley will be interned between the cushions of his living room couch, family sources revealed.
I got my first TV with a remote control in 2002. My previous TV was purchased in 1980 and was still working well when we disposed of it in 2004.
I don’t know how we lived without it. Seriesly. I’m not lazy, but when I become one with the couch after a long day, especially in the winter, I don’t want to get up!
Thank you, remote guy.
—— The best part wasn’t the metallic thunking sound, but the way the TV channel dial was turned by an electric motor and a gear. Like activating a small automobile starter, wirelessly.-——
Awesomeness!
I envied the kids who had color TVs, especially the kids who had (gasp) a remote control!
Our family got a color console TV when I was in high school (mid 1970s). In those days I remember the Wizard of OZ came on onece a year. I had seen it several times so never watched it in high school. When I got to college they showed it at a free flick night. A bunch of us from the dorm went to see it. I had always thought it was all in black and white, which is how I’d always seen it. I was SHOCKED (audibly) when, out of nowhere, Dorothy stepped out of her house in the land of OZ to full color. For some reason I will never forget that.
-—I was SHOCKED (audibly) when, out of nowhere, Dorothy stepped out of her house in the land of OZ to full color. For some reason I will never forget that.-—
I can believe that. I distinctly remember the first show I saw at home on our color TV, The McLaughlin Group! LOL. I was amazed by the blue background.
That was around 1980. My dad’s friends used to kid him about his “thriftiness” in not buying a color TV. But he was a depression era kid, so it’s understandable, and becoming more understandable every day.
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