O/T:- TV remote controls

[Jolllypie]

Can't believe that people are so lazy that they can't get up to change channels.

[uysapie]

Old age!

[queenslandpie]

Used to be good exercise back in the day. I blame Trump.

[SinceSept1959]

Depends what garbage is on the screen.
Changing channels manually is good exercise but, very often, the urgent need to change or turn off channels necessitates using the remote !
Not to mention, falling asleep and being woken up by loud , inane , adverts !

[OP67]

I remember a mate getting a Ferguson videostar with a remote on a lead. We felt like kings not having to get up to pause it This was pre TV remotes I believe.

[maddogslater]

Such a fad though if you leave it next to the tv and have to get up 🤪😝
Remember Rustypie from rivals Jolly 🤔

[Old_pie]

Don't folk just shout at the telly now? Or haven't they moved on with the times?

[Observerpie]

Oh for the days of having to adjust the vertical and horizontal hold and, if that failed, thumping it on the top.

[upthemaggies]

Our first remote control, a 1982 Hitachi model, was like a brick in thickness as well as the length.
It did change my viewing habits because I started seeing what was on BBC2 a lot more, whereas before it was usually left on ITV all night unless something was annoying the whole family, then it would get switched to BBC1.
Channel 4 started a few months after we got the remote, so it was a well timed upgrade, but with hindsight I wished we'd waited 18 months or so as we probably would have then got a teletext set much earlier than we ended up doing.

[GEZMAN]

Had our first remote control in the late 70s. Strangely if you dropped coins near the remote, it'd change channels on its own - a remote controlled remote!