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That's why Americans a so fat. Get up and walk over to your TV and turn it on lazy!!
@kevon27
Yeah, 'cuz that 4 foot walk to the TV and back is going to really help people loose 100lbs.
What about people who have distributed Audio/Video systems, should they walk down to their rack and turn everything on, then walk back and forth to change channels and volume?
@Pacey Back in the 80's my TV had no remote and had a analog tuner which you have to manually turn (use muscles) to change the channels, change the volume and to turn the TV off and on.
@kevon27
Yep, and you know what? Fat people still existed in the 80s despite the tremendous exercise that getting up to change the channel provided.
@Pacey Yes, they existed in the 80's but which decade that the most fat people? It's the 90's and 2000's.. all because of the remote.
@kevon27
This isn't just about being lazy. This is about simple things like your Tivo being able to control your cable box. Without this capability, a non-CC Tivo has no way of tuning in scrambled cable channels.
I use the USB ports on the DirecTV receivers for this very thing. Others use firewire ports or IR blasters to change the channel on an STB they are recording from.
In my experience, the USB ports on the DTV recievers are nearly troublesome enough to not be worth bothering with.
@kevon27
I guess you'll need to convince electronics companies to actually put the function button on the TV, receiver, cable box, etc, instead of just on the remote then. Sure, Power is on the TV, but a lot of other functions aren't.
Plus, if you are just talking about turning the equipment off, how much more exercise will you get turning the stuff off by hand, then leaving the room, over just leaving the room after hitting off on the remote?