Posted on 10/19/2004 6:48:37 PM PDT by leadpencil1
I don't know but I can imagine using this guy's keychain to great effect in an enemy sports bar, say in Dallas or New York. GO EAGLES!!!
My TV is going out... Currently flickering every 5 seconds and the remote IR went out tonight. Probably will go out during the World Series. Guess I need to start pricing new sets.
That guy needs a hand model.
ug.
Ahhhhh pickle.
mark
Don't even bother considering anything without HDTV capability.
You can give one of those watches to your teenage kid with instructions to use it to surreptitiously turn off any videos his leftie-lie-beral teachers are trying to use to brainwash their students.I had one of those programmable calculators that I modified to do just that!
Teachers go ape-schumer trying to finger out who's doing it...
I want one of these!
Seems that I and a neighbor had the same Idea.. hook up an appliance controller to the TV, and turn it on or off from the comfort of the bed.. ( This was before remotes were everywhere for everything )
Problem was, we evidently both had the same controller code.. for something.. ( anyway, mine was the TV.. )
One night my TV went off.. no reason.. I "punched" it back on.. a little while later, it went off again... I turned it on again.. off again, on again..
I waited a while, then turned it on manually.. Everything was fine for the rest of the night..
Next night, the "war" started again, about 10 pm..
I finally figured out what must be going on, and changed my code.. on every module in the house.. ( I had 8 of them, plus the controller itself..)
No moral to the story, just thought it applied here..
The more things change, the more they stay the same..
Just different technology..
Welcome to the TV Zapper Wars..
I've been doing this for awhile with my PocketPC that has remote capability. While visiting my uncle, who was in the other room, I turned the TV off before my aunt touched touched the power button in order to leave. She jumped back, surprised. "Did you do that?" she asked. I obviously denied it. When my aunt turned it back on, I'd turn it right back off. I kept doing this until she finally called for my uncle.
I played along, and agreed with her that it was indeed turning on and off on its own. But I wouldn't do it with him in the room. He would leave, and I would start all over again.
So she'd call him back in and...nothing. The TV worked perfectly. Now my uncle was mad and walked into the other room again. My aunt was going crazy, because it wouldn't do it when he was in the room.
I left it off for awhile until my uncle returned. I waited for him to say something like, "TV's don't just turn on and off by themselves." Then I did it and he got white as a ghost.
He would get up and turn it off, and I let them get confident that the "haunting" was over, and when they started to get ready to leave I would turn it back on again and start flipping through the channels furiously. My uncle would unplug the TV and then plug it back in again. I'd wait about 10 seconds and then "click" -- on it would go again.
When my aunt would say "It keeps turning off," I'd turn it off. Then she would say, "Now watch, it will turn on." So I'd wait to throw her off, and then she would throw her hands up in the air in frustration as it turned back on. She said, "A lady died in this apartment, do you think it could be her?"
I even had them round up the remotes, remove the batteries, and lay the remotes on the concrete porch all to no avail. He still gives me a hard time about doing that.
Sounds like a good way to start a fight!
I wish they had a gizmo like that that would work on these d**n boom boxes in cars!
real kill your television ping
I'll shell out $15 for one of these! I am so sick of everywhere I go, from restraunts to airports, etc etc etc.. there's a damned TV going.
When I was growing up and everyone had the cable box with the identical remotes, a friend of mine took his remote and went through his neighborhood at night screwing with all his neighbors. Switching channels, turning TVs on and off. He even got one guy to destroy his cable box in anger. I wonder how many haunted house stories sprang up from that one.
You naughty naughty little boy! :)
Does it change channels to? That would be funny having CNN changed to FNC in the airport or something.
its not cool to mess with stuff that doesnt belong to you. if you are in a bar with a tv on , and you dont like whats' on, you ignore , or leave the bar.
yep, it works for most TV's that I have tried, althought it is not as comprehensive as a "real" universal remote.
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