Having a fully-equipped home theater is a wonderful thing. You’ve got the Blu-Ray player for movies, a couple of game systems, a premium CD player and a cable box all neatly hooked up to your mounted flat panel TV with surrounding TV wall frame. You’re ready to sink back into your favorite reclining chair and enjoy the high-definition sights and sounds… but you can’t seem to find the remote to turn on the Blu-Ray player. It must’ve fallen back behind the TV. After searching for it you come across three complex-looking remotes, but you can’t remember if they are for your TV, CD player and Blu-Ray player or if they are from the previous set up you had in the room before the upgrade. Despite repeated attempts to click on at least one device, the remotes prove unassailable – one is working for the TV, but the others appear to have dead connections. A nice, relaxing evening is then spent on figuring out what the remotes are actually for, and how to turn on your Blu-Ray player without its matching remote. (more…)
