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- From: smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Miller)
- Subject: Re: help - tv remote
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181039.20842@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Dec29.4265.27307@dosgate> <1992Dec30.160937.16326@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:10:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.160937.16326@phx.mcd.mot.com> schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.4265.27307@dosgate> "glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com> writes:
- >>Recently I learned that a friends mother suffers from Hodgkins (sp?)
- >>disease. As a result, her motor control has become very poor and she is
- >>having alot of trouble changing channels on her tv set. The problem is
- >>that her remote control (supplied by the cable company) only gives the
- >>user a certain amount of time to press the required numbers to change the
- >>.....
- >>small wired remote which would give her three large buttons (one for each
- >>channel) to work with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >I guess the simplest, but most expensive solution would be to use three
- >cable converters and switch between them.
- >
- >The least expensive, and least convienient solution would be to get a
- >remote which has channel up/down buttons and remote these to large
- >buttons. It might, however, take her an excessive amount of time to
- >step from say channel 4 to channel 36.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- My VCR (Mitsubishi) lets me skip channels that I don't want to see when
- I use the channel up and channel down buttons. This feature might
- be available on other VCRs also.
- --
- Jeffrey H. Miller smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov
- Sverdrup Technology, NASA Lewis Research Center Group, Cleveland, Ohio
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