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On that note, the technicians might not have known another remote exists

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Marc,


Now my remote is working perfectly, there is just one problem.

It goes into Standby OK, but I cannot find any button or buttons to switch the TV off. The V+ did this by pressing * and Standby together.

Thanks Marc
Wittmann the Infamous :redcard:
Distant relative of Ivan the Terrible

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Try holding the standby button down for 5 seconds

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Hi JB,

Brilliant !, it worked.

The 5 seconds puts it on Standby and also shuts the TV off.


Wittmann the Infamous
:waving:

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Just as it tells you to do in the user manual. You would have thought the OP might have used his noggin and read the manual - being an educated chap and all that. Even I read the manual when we got our Tivo and I've only got one degree with a First.

Cheers

Grim

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OK, appreciate your compliments. Cannot you just say something nice instead of making mischievous and derogatory statements about people ? There is absolutely no need for those comments. And as for your single degree with a first, was the first relating to insulting behaviour or Internet trolling ?

Now, my adviser extraordinaire, following your nasty accusation that I am a noggin, I looked through the precious manual and could not find any reference to holding the Standby button down for 5 seconds to shut off my TV. I can read manuals far better than you can, but none of us are perfect, so I may have missed it, but I don`t think so. But I can read !

To make a positive contribution if it is possible, are you able to explain where in this magic manual it says about the 5 seconds Standby hold to shut down the TV ?

Oh by the way, this magic manual is so brilliant that although the index shows page numbers for each item, the pages are not numbered. Some more noggins present in the world besides Wittmann eh ?

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OK, a couple of things. I thought speaking to people in a patronising and condescending way was your normal method of communication (see your post quoted above) so thought I'd use a style you'd understand (and appreciate). It appears that you can give it but can't take it so please accept my sincerest apologies for speaking to you in the manner you use when speaking to others. Now you realise it can be upsetting to be spoken down to, I'm sure there are many other members here who would accept your apologies for the manner you've used when speaking to them.

A copy of the instruction manual for the Tivo can be found here. Page 33 paragraph 8 seems to be the bit you struggled to find. All pretty well numbered and easy to follow.

Next bit of help. Have a look here using the internet to look things up isn't that hard. With a bit of practice I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.

Cheers

Grim

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Dare I say thanks for your complimentary profile. Quite unnecessary, but if it makes you happy to talk like that, it is fine by me.

Well, Wittman is not as stupid as you people appear tp think. If you look carefully at the image below of my manual index, you just may spot that this magic page 33 is missing. So how can an apparent idiot like Wittmann read it ?

Which is why I asked the question in the first place. Not so daft after all, so all the derogatory comments have been made for absolutely nothing but mischief.

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When googling, it is important to be specific - so if you put

"how do i use vm tivo remote to switch off tv"

You get this link (the first couple of links are to the VM Help pages, which are being revised at the moment) - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1472828

Which states Hope this helps...

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Hugh, your comments do help, but my manual has not got page 33 in it, hence the confusion. I do not Google when i am given a manual.
Thanks

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Keep fit, just get up off your arse and switch the TV off with the button on the TV, simples....:D

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Not all of the remote codes will do standby. For some TVs you can only do volume, no matter which code you use. So standby isn't mentioned in the latest version of the TiVo Guide which is here

https://my.virginmedia.com/content/d...uick_guide.pdf

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Brilliant suggestion for the technological world of 2015. You are so useful and knowledgeable, that the benefit of reading your tripe is a waste of time..

Did you actually know that a remote control developed by modern technologists is intended to prevent you getting up off your arse, walking over to the TV set and plonking a button ?

Now I know why your username is Mad Max, you are living in the past. I suggest you get up off your arse and become familiar with the high tech world of today and not that of Guglielmo Marconi.

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Have you had a humour bypass? Chill out man, I mean I put a smillie in there Fred.......:D