I constantly lose my remote and have to use those buttons
You could do the hotel thing. Just glue your remote to the coffee table. Never lose it again. Or just look through the couch cushions cuz why would it have left the room it’s TV is in unless you have kids? And if you have kids that lose the remote just do what my parents did:
Your kids are now the remote. Make them press the stupidly small crappy buttons. Maybe that’s why they’re small in the first place; they expected them to only be used by small children.
To answer your question, I have now 3 times found myself in the living room holding the remote rather than my cellphone, which is back on the bed by the television. My only excuse is that I’m over 60, ADD, and was distracted by the dirty dishes I was also carrying.
Nothing like having to unlock your phone and wait for it to reload the app just so you can turn down the volume. And good luck doing that if you’re having network issues.
good luck doing that if you’re having network issues.
One of the reasons why I would like IR Blasters to become common in most phones again. In a smartphone, those would be way more useful than the regular-ass cell phones I remember having them in all the time.
Especially when Netflix gives you like 2 seconds to cancel it skipping the ending themes and doesn’t give you any option to disable that, so by the time you have the app running, it’s already playing the next episode.
Granted, getting out of bed to try to stop it by using physical buttons would take several times as long.
You could do the hotel thing. Just glue your remote to the coffee table. Never lose it again. Or just look through the couch cushions cuz why would it have left the room it’s TV is in unless you have kids? And if you have kids that lose the remote just do what my parents did:
Your kids are now the remote. Make them press the stupidly small crappy buttons. Maybe that’s why they’re small in the first place; they expected them to only be used by small children.
To answer your question, I have now 3 times found myself in the living room holding the remote rather than my cellphone, which is back on the bed by the television. My only excuse is that I’m over 60, ADD, and was distracted by the dirty dishes I was also carrying.
Or get a smart TV and just use your phone
Nothing like having to unlock your phone and wait for it to reload the app just so you can turn down the volume. And good luck doing that if you’re having network issues.
One of the reasons why I would like IR Blasters to become common in most phones again. In a smartphone, those would be way more useful than the regular-ass cell phones I remember having them in all the time.
Especially when Netflix gives you like 2 seconds to cancel it skipping the ending themes and doesn’t give you any option to disable that, so by the time you have the app running, it’s already playing the next episode.
Granted, getting out of bed to try to stop it by using physical buttons would take several times as long.