If their Web site wasn’t down, I’d order one of these (OK, they’re probably expensive, but I’d at least like to check it out). It’s a key-chain attachment that contains just one button. When you press that button, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off TVs, the most popular brands first (generally, the codes for turning off a TV are the same as turning one on, so this will work for that, too). Full story.
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They’re $14.99 plus $5 for postage (visited the site before it went down). Not bad value, considering the ‘god’ factor you’d get by being able to turn off any TV you liked – a bit like a Bruce Almighty of TVs 🙂
Actually, that’s not a bad price at all. Beats carrying around a universal remote and a whole pile of codes.
I like the idea of being able to go into a restaurant and turning off all the TV’s so that I can actually have a conversation at a normal volume level.
Not to mention the entertainment value of watching staff trying to figure out what’s going on.
Statisticly, I wonder how long it takes on average to get a tv turned off? It might be a little weird to sit there for a full minute holding down this button 🙂
To my knowledge, you hit it once and it starts cycling through the codes, so it’s not like you have to hold it for a minute. And even if you did, the most popular codes are in there first, so it wouldn’t be like you’d hold it down the entire time.