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Of course, you can buy all-in-one remote controls that can be taught the IR signals sent by any of your existing remote controls so that they can be sent from one device. (I don’t buy this, really – even with two or three remote controls the situation’s pretty bad.) Theory 3 – more people use all-in-one remotes than I expect Maybe people are OK with two or three remote controls, and this usability problem only becomes really bad when you end up needing four or five. Theory 2 – typically people have few input devices

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Perhaps they just live with the complexity: they keep four or five remote controls around all the time, and effectively write an operations manual for their families or house guests who might need to try something as extraordinary as, I dunno, watching TV, or using Netflix. Is it the case that most of the people in the market for AV receivers don’t care about this? Do they live with people who aren’t Hi-Fi enthusiasts, and how do those people deal with it? Theory 1 – they live with the complexity The number of different remote controls you need is one of the most obvious ways that usability of home cinema systems tends to be awful. Not typically listed in manufacturers’ specifications, so it’s very hard to tell if a device you’re going to buy will actually support it.Ĭlearly I’m missing something about the world of home cinema / Hi-Fi, otherwise more people would know and care about this feature.Not widely known about – the two otherwise well-informed people I spoke to at Richer Sounds hadn’t even heard of this feature.Very variably supported – even devices that claim to support HDMI-CEC ⁴ don’t necessarily do the remote control pass-through.However, I’ve discovered the expensive way that this fantastically useful feature is: Even if we got those alternatives controllers, it’d mean two additional remote controls to juggle.

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³ Without this feature we’d need to get an IR receiver for the Raspberry Pi or have a Bluetooth keyboard by the sofa, and use the PS4’s Dualshock 4 controller, which isn’t great as a remote control – the shoulder buttons tend to get pushed when you put it down. Why is that useful? In our case, because two of the connected devices are a Raspberry Pi (running Kodi) and a Playstation 4, both which can be controlled this way just from the AV receiver’s remote control. on the AV receiver’s remote control, those commands are sent to the HDMI input device that’s currently active. This means that when you press the arrow keys, play, pause, etc. I’d just assumed that all AV receivers would have the second most important feature I actually want, which is: … since having at least 5 is useful, and plenty of the cheaper devices on the market only have inputs for 3 or 4 HDMI devices.īut this turned out to be naïve. ¹ (If you’re not sure what such a device is for, I’ve described how we use it in footnote 2.) In shopping for a replacement, I thought that to a reasonable approximation I only needed to look at one feature: We had a couple of power cuts in quick succession recently, and the fluctuations in power around that time killed our old AV receiver.

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