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Mr Barry Warsaw wrote:

>i've got a general question about these "learning" remotes. would it
>be useful for controlling a VCR where i don't have the original remote
>to learn off of?  see i got this VCR real cheap-like, but it didn't
>come with a remote.
>
>or would i be better off with a preprogrammed one, assuming i could
>find one that "knows" about my VCR?

Hey, barry!  Couldn't resist responding, i mean, i have an answer, and
we haven't corresponded across news for quite a while.  Ah, the good
old days...

I do think the programmable universal is significantly nicer.
However, you'd have to get a working remote for your model VCR to
program the learning universal, and you'd have to be reeal careful
besides to avoid erasing functions in that mode, unless you can retain
access to the correct teaching remote.

Coincidentally enough, some preprogrammed universal probably would
have the codes for your VCR, but you'd have to arrange temporary
access to one to do the programming of the learning universal.  Now i
wonder how you could do that?

Solving this philosophical and ethical question is left as an exercise
for the reader.  There will be no test, unless you count life.

Ken again
klm@cme.nist.gov, 301 975-3539