Technologies I thought my son would never use

Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by hyakosm on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:19PM (#26773541)

With my new TV, I have a "modern" remote with few buttons because everything happens in the UI. When I watch TV I need sometimes to enable subtitles (only on non-French speaking channels). With a traditional bulky remote I had a subtitle button: simple and straightforward. With the new remote I must click on a menu, navigate through items, select subtitles, and close the overlay window. It's really annoying. I miss old big Sony remotes with a lot of options for subtitles, image ratio, sound, speed control...

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by axaxs on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:53AM (#26776392)

While I agree with you in principle, I don't in practice.

The whole problem is that TV remotes keep changing. My TV now we have two remotes, one that came with the TV and one for Google TV.

I used the TV remote the other day out of necessity...and it took me about 20 seconds to find the mute key. On the GTV remote, it's one of like 5 buttons.

I'll always prefer physical buttons to menus, but not when the layout and meanings of said buttons change every year.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by Dort on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:26AM (#26776808)

Our new* black TV remote includes a big, white with red text Netflix button. We don’t have Netflix and thus will never use this button. The rest of this remote is fine.

*a few years back now

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