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In article <1992Dec30.160937.16326@phx.mcd.mot.com> schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.4265.27307@dosgate> "glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com> writes:
>>Recently I learned that a friends mother suffers from Hodgkins (sp?)
>>disease.  As a result, her motor control has become very poor and she is
>>having alot of trouble changing channels on her tv set.  The problem is
>>that her remote control (supplied by the cable company) only gives the
>>user a certain amount of time to press the required numbers to change the
>>.....
>>small wired remote which would give her three large buttons (one for each
>>channel) to work with.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>I guess the simplest, but most expensive solution would be to use three
>cable converters and switch between them.
>
>The least expensive, and least convienient solution would be to get a
>remote which has channel up/down buttons and remote these to large
>buttons. It might, however, take her an excessive amount of time to
>step from say channel 4 to channel 36.
>
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My VCR (Mitsubishi) lets me skip channels that I don't want to see when
I use the channel up and channel down buttons.  This feature might
be available on other VCRs also.
-- 
Jeffrey H. Miller     smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov
Sverdrup Technology, NASA Lewis Research Center Group, Cleveland, Ohio

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