Silly poll: Can YOU work all of your tv remotes?

[Margo out of lurking]

I just commented on another thread that I still have no idea how to turn on our tv. It's connected to cable, a DVD player, a Wii, and I have no idea what else.

 

After four months of this set up, I still can't turn on anything. I don't watch tv that much, but when I do, I have to get help. So I'm curious--who else is stuck in the 90s. Or 80s. lol

[Mejane]

Nope. I was just informed by my son that the remote lights up and where the button is. This, after fumbling in the dark with it for two years. :001_smile:

[Mrs Mungo]

I set everything up, I program everything, I know how to work it all. Dh is another story. ;)

[Perry]

I put other. I'm pretty technologically savvy, but I almost never watch television, so I haven't bothered learning how to run the remotes. I do know how to push the "off" button, since people often leave the room and leave the blasted thing on. :glare:

[MamaT]

I set everything up, I program everything, I know how to work it all. Dh is another story. ;)

 

Yes, this sounds like our house. Someone around here has to help poor dad.

[angela in ohio]

We have one, and it came with the TV. I know how to use it, as I am the one in the house who handles electronics. :001_smile:

[catalinakel]

I have never owned a tv with a remote control...and probably never will.

[Audrey]

It's not that I can't use the different remotes, it's that I can't remember sometimes what features each remote has. I get them mixed up and think I can do something with one that it doesn't actually do.

[Parrothead]

I set everything up, I program everything, I know how to work it all. Dh is another story. ;)

This would be me two years ago. I didn't set it all up this time, I was sick in bed the day the satellite guy came and set up the system.

 

I can turn on the TV, the surround sound and the Wii. I can do anything I want with the TV and the Wii. The sound system is a bit foreign to me though.

[DarlaS]

Define "work". You mean like every single button? Maybe...

[HappyatHome]

We only have one t.v., but it now has three remotes (and we don't have cable). Oldest ds finally wrote out what was for what on masking tape on each one. I guess he was tired of my asking how to turn the t.v. on.

 

So I can use them, but they come with cheat sheets. The very last thing he wrote was, "If you still can't figure these out, Pray!"

 

Funny guy.

[Jean in Newcastle]

I can do the basics including turning on the t.v. I can't do slightly harder stuff like record a movie or something like that.

[TravelingChris]

I had to press other since I am very familiar with the remote of the tv in the living room and all the other remotes for that room. On the other hand, the family room, not so much. Mainly because I don't go down there very much especially since I broke my leg. It takes me a while to set things up and I don't know how to watch movies with the WII.

[Night Elf]

I chose other because while I can operate my remotes, I'm not going to say I can do anything.

[Jean in Newcastle]

I wanted to add that I could figure this stuff out either by sitting down and trying stuff out or by looking at the manuals. But I've gotten to the place where I would much rather delegate that to the munchkins. Then because I have delegated it to them, I end up having to keep asking them because I don't have it figured out for myself.

[Heidi]

I don't own tv remotes :D Mandatory other.

[Melissa in Australia]

I have no idea, as I never have a chance to use them. I have a house full of remote fanatics, who are constantly flipping channels.

[AngieW in Texas]

My dh is the only one who can't always figure out the remotes. He watches tv only during football season and at the start of the season he has to relearn how to work the remotes. He learns pretty quickly. We always try to make sure that he doesn't have either of the remotes that control volume when we're all watching something together. He likes to turn the volume up to the 45-50 range (50 is the max) while the rest of us prefer to watch with the volume in the 20-25 range for most shows or 25-30 at the most.

[Rhonda in TX]

DH sets it all up, but once he does, I learn the remote very quickly.

[Peela]

I have to regularly ask my kids to remind me how the 3 separate remotes we have for the TV work together. They are all for different things. DH knows too. My excuse is that I dont watch TV often enough to learn and I forget between times because its so long. :lol:

[JessReplanted]

We have 3 different remotes - one for the TV (to change the channel of the actual TV), one for the cable (to change the channel of what you are watching, & for volume), & one for the DVD player. I actually labeled the backs of each of them - and wrote down which channels of the TV do what (cable, dvd, or wii). This was a year ago - my husband still flips over the remotes to check for directions! :lol:

[KidsHappen]

No. I have a universal but just recently we had to buy a new DVD player because the old one died and obviously it is not hooked up properly. We have to use all three remotes to get anything to work and no one knows exactly how to do it. We just push buttons until something happens. When I want to watch something on TV (House, Bones & Fringe) I have to make sure that it is set up hours ahead of time so that I don't miss anything. It is a real pain because I just figured out the old set up right before it died. My phone is several generations old and I don't want to replace it because I have barely mastered this one. When I computer died, I paid to have a new hard drive installed rather than buy a new computer because I didn't want anything to change and then have to learn a new system.

[Giraffe]

I set everything up, I program everything, I know how to work it all. Dh is another story. ;)

 

DH just hands the remote to me to operate. I set it up and I troubleshoot it too. ;)

 

Computers - now that's his territory. :confused:

[K&Rs Mom]

I can, but dh can't. :lol: He doesn't text, either, and couldn't program the VCR when we had one, but somehow earned a master's degree in computers. :001_huh:

[RoughCollie]

Other. I am not a technological idiot. I could figure out how to work the remotes to the tv, but I don't watch tv, so that would be a waste of my time.

[Sasharowan]

I can do anything except find the remotes after ds4 uses them.

[Tap]

I can work all the video remotes. The only one that confuses me is the stereo receiver. :confused: There are way toooooo many options on that baby.

 

 

I can make it work for what I want it to do, but I don't use any other functions.

[Rosie_0801]

Where's the option for "I haven't actually seen the remotes since we moved house so I haven't a chance."

 

:)

Rosie