Keychain Remote Control Turns Off Most TVs
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A lot of people love television but apparently some people have had enough of it, too. A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs &#151; anywhere from airports to restaurants &#151; is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf the channels on their boob tubes.
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By INEZ RUSSELL  Last month, after one too many discussions with my child about the need to turn the television off, I called the satellite company and put technology on hold. We've never been a big TV family. In fact, until he was 4, our boy didn't watch television at all.
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QUANTICO, Va. - For many suburbanites, life without garage door openers is unimaginable. But neighbors of the Marine base here have been reduced to just that after a strong radio signal coming from the facility began neutralizing remote-control openers.
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Attention owners of primitive TVs: If you still use an antenna to watch "American Idol," your picture will disappear at midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, unless you buy something called a digital converter box.
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Coupons days are here for owners of outdated analog televisions.
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It could be a single malfunctioning power supply. Or, from the other side of the glass, it could be a portent of doom for a technology that would make good use of all those TV channels that no one's broadcasting on, for wireless networking.
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By Richard J. Dalton Jr., Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 16--While Nintendo's Wii game consoles have been flying off the  shelves, its remote control has been flying into shelves -- and television  sets, and ceiling fans and walls.
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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Babies don't come with remote controls or even an OFF switch.  Do the promises made by high-tech baby gadgets set up new parents for increased burnout and disappointment?
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Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting.
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Then gets grilled at hacker fest The more paranoid among us have long been wary of the possibility that networked fridges might spontaneously turn off, perhaps after becoming infected with a computer virus, ruining milk in the process. Other networked appliances might also pose a danger of sorts, security boffins have shown.â¦
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If you're interested in a do-it-yourself project and want to get to the nuts and bolts with a minimum of chatter, turn off your TV and turn on your computer.
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SAN JOSE, California -- A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs - anywhere from airports to restaurants - is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf channels.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Dec. 16--The wireless controller for the new Nintendo Wii video game  console is light, compact, and dangerous -- at least to TV sets.
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The Messiah Darklite DVD remote looks a lot like LG's Chocolate cell phones, and it allows you to control your PlayStation 3 without using a gaming controller.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- For anyone who's ever clicked the TV remote thinking there must be something better on another channel, it's a dream come true.Researchers have built a room where hundreds of programs appear on a large, wraparound screen.
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Most TV viewers who do not have cable or satellite TV will stick to broadcast programming after the switch to digital TV in February 2009.