fuzzzerd,

And that's where the term "clicker" came from, as opposed to the more modern "remote".

Treczoks,

I had a TV with an ultrasonic remote. It was a nightmare. Whenever I moved the curtains, random things happened with the TV, including the volume hitting a 10 in the middle of the night...

Scirocco,

maybe still better than the flashlight/photocell types!

skellener,
skellener avatar

When my friend’s dog would run across the living room the tags on its collar would jingle and change the channel. Sometimes at a very important part of a program we were watching! 🤣

Nougat,

I had one of these TVs when I was a kid, it came from my grandparents' house when they got a new one. We also had a dog that wore a steel-linked choker collar, and the TV channels would change, or the TV would turn on an off when he ran around and jangled the collar.

Alabaster_Mango,
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca avatar

This is why remotes are sometimes called “Clickers”

Here’s a neato article about this remote.

hoodatninja,
hoodatninja avatar

That was indeed neato

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