Monday, January 16, 2006
I really should read manuals...
At the weekend I purchased a new Freeview STB, it was the highly rated Sony VTX-D800U. I did my usual trick of taking everything, except the manual, out of the box and plugging in all the cables into their approriate sockets.
Everything just worked and I never needed to refer to the manual. The only thing that didn't work was the volume control on the remote. My previous Freeview STB's have had a volume control built into them so I haven't needed the TV remote, and I was annoyed because it would mean that I would have to keep my TV remote around so that I could change the volume.
I assumed that the remote changed volume on Sony TV's but we have a Philips TV, so frustrated I headed off to the web to search for a simple universal remote that could operate both my TV and STB. During my search I stumbled onto a forum where I found a thread that mentioned being able to change the remote so that it operated other makes of TV.
So finally I got the manual out of the box and found the page on changing the remote to operate our Philips TV. I promise to try a read, or even just glance, through manuals a little more often in the future.
Everything just worked and I never needed to refer to the manual. The only thing that didn't work was the volume control on the remote. My previous Freeview STB's have had a volume control built into them so I haven't needed the TV remote, and I was annoyed because it would mean that I would have to keep my TV remote around so that I could change the volume.
I assumed that the remote changed volume on Sony TV's but we have a Philips TV, so frustrated I headed off to the web to search for a simple universal remote that could operate both my TV and STB. During my search I stumbled onto a forum where I found a thread that mentioned being able to change the remote so that it operated other makes of TV.
So finally I got the manual out of the box and found the page on changing the remote to operate our Philips TV. I promise to try a read, or even just glance, through manuals a little more often in the future.
