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Originally Posted by spiderplant
To be fair, there really is no reason they should know this. The two remotes are meant to be interchangeable, and as far as I know you are the first person to ever have this fault. You have a very unusual TV.
Trying the other remote was a long shot but I thought it was worth a try, and got lucky. Off to buy a lottery ticket now...
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Spider,
My TV may have
been very unusual, but thanks to you, it is not unusual now.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
The two remotes are meant to be interchangeable.
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Have I seen that supposition before and found it flawed.
I find it unbelievable that two remotes presumably made to a common Virgin specification have different TV code data bases.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Trying the other remote was a long shot but I thought it was worth a try, and got lucky. Off to buy a lottery ticket now...
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That is what sorts out the men from the boys in engineering practice. It is called a hunch and combined with a respectable engineers acquired
tricks of the trade has often resulted in a solution.
You cannot learn these two factors in College, one comes from personal ability and the other from experience.