[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...

(InfraRed remote control) A handheld, wireless device used to operate audio, video and other electronic equipment within a room using light signals in the infrared (IR) range. Infrared light requires ...

Malvern, Pa.—In a move to minimize the impact of fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and other disturbance signals on IR remote control systems, Vishay Intertechnology Inc. released five series of ...

Last week I mentioned a piece of equipment in my TV cabinet that I’d like to tell you about — an infrared repeater. Sounds like some kind of space heater. But it allows your home theater or stereo ...

For today's how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface for our PC. We took a few pieces from various designs to come up our own, built ...

Sometimes, you look around at all these gadgets and in a rare moment of inspiration or madness, you look at them all a little different??? connected in a way they are currently not, but perhaps should ...

With many audio systems consisting of separate units, you’ll often find that due to economic reasons only the amplifier has a remote control receiver module. The control signals are then sent to the ...