"owners can use their Wii controller (via the sensor bar) to dictate volume, switch channels and flip back and forth between their shows and the TV Guide Channel"
The Wii sensor bar is always placed facing the user. Assuming the sensor bar can be programmed to emit IR code to control the TV, the IR signal will have to bounce off wall to do it.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"owners can use their Wii controller (via the sensor bar) to dictate volume, switch channels and flip back and forth between their shows and the TV Guide Channel"
The Wii sensor bar is always placed facing the user. Assuming the sensor bar can be programmed to emit IR code to control the TV, the IR signal will have to bounce off wall to do it.