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gfloyd
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 Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: The inventor of the TV remote Control Dies |
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A man to whom lazy people everywhere owe a deep seated  gratitude. Advertisers are probably not mourning his passing.
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BOISE, Idaho -- Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.
Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime.
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Shaky Fan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironically, the first thing I did after seeing the headline on Ceefax was to lift the remote to press the page number for the story! |
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H
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To this gentleman I owe the fact that I can have my comments read on the Teletext TV pages.I was on ITV 1 page 143 earlier today praising Gerard McCarthy from Hollyoaks and I may be on Ceefax doing the same tonight I haven't looked yet.
Seriously, though, the remote control has become such a part of all our lives we all owe him a debt of gratitude in my view.
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: The inventor of the TV remote Control Dies |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | .... died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93 |
Tap him on the table a few times and he'll probably be ok..... 
How many remember the days before the remote? as a kid, I was always kicked to get up and turn the TV over! clunk, clunk, clunk.
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in early days, we had a swedish TV set with an audible remote. One could hear it if you listened hard enough, very high pitched.
and,
as a home owner for the elderly, I'd point out that today's remotes are far too complicated for old folk to use! |
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Shaky Fan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| There's too many! One for the TV, one for the video, one for the DVD player, one for the Freeview box and then we have a universal one which we can only get programmed to work on the TV and Video and which only seems to work sometimes. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| How come Iain 'The grim reaper' Smith wasn't first with this story? |
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| He wasn't remotely interested... |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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woodysdad
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Have you any idea how much it cost to stop you walking 5 feet to the TV...That money could surely have been put to better use!
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