Energy saving bulbs and remote.
 

I know these play hell with NTL remotes, and right now mine is almost usless even within a foot of the box, anyone got any tips apart from turning the light off everytime I want to change station :dozey:

Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
 

Change the light bulb.

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I've found that after about an hour, the remote starts working a little better, but to be honest, I did what SLM said and changed the bulb...

Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
 

This is because as you have these bulbs switched on longer they warm up and the frequency of the light generated changes so that it doesn't produce as much Infra-Red light at the "wrong" frequency any more.

Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
 

Try a different make of bulb - the frequency of these is not tightly controlled, and will vary between units of the same type, brands, age and temperature.

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My energy saving bulbs don't intefere with any of my remotes.

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Ok cheers, I'll try a diff brand and if that don't help then I'll have to go back to normal blulb.

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think its bad news when we all talk about saving energy, but yet silly things likeremotes not working has to stop this

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We use LED bulbs in our house and they dont interefere, although they are an expensive bulb if you go for the 2Watt version.

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No interference here either. However, this whole notion totally astounds me in the same way that ntl won't work with certain types of television. Not exactly encouraging is it.

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Just a quick update, I changed it for another make bulb I had in the kitchen, and since then I have had no problems.

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Can we name brands of bulbs that don't appear to cause this? just in case we can't, there's a BIG chain of Superstores, probably one of the biggest if not the biggest who's own brand bulbs haven't caused this problem for me, every little helps eh? ;)

Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
 

Wring them up and get a new one!

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The one that works fine has House & Home written on it, god knows what shop it came from though.

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I do not think you can blame ntl re this as IR technology has been around a hell of a lot longer than energy saving bulbs and lcd/plasma tvs.