A question for the guys out there...

[ktschris]

Exactly how many remote controls does a man need to watch 1 TV!!!
My husband has 3!!! I can hardly stand it!! (by the way, he calls them ----- his weapons!!) So lets hear it guys, how many does it take!

[Kimmifunn]

Exactly how many remote controls does a man need to watch 1 TV!!!
My husband has 3!!! I can hardly stand it!! (by the way, he calls them ----- his weapons!!) So lets hear it guys, how many does it take!

I'm a girl and I have 4.

TV (controls volume and stuff)
Cable
DVD
Tivo

[jessifunn]

we have 3 and only 1 works

[ktschris]

Dont' even get me started on the basket that sits on top of the entertainment center that holds all the dead soliders!!!

[bsmart]

I have 4: 1) TV; 2) Cable Box/DVR; 3) DVD player; 4) Stereo/Surround System.

[ktschris]

OK, so he's not the only one. Let me ask this...do you make your wife go back in forth between the channels that are HD and arn't just so she can see the difference in quality? EVERY NIGHT? (Honestly, he gets mad if I say I can't see a difference! Sometimes I do it just to see him have a fit!

[kurt]

I hate having more than one.

[Smiling JOe]

I have 3 remotes for the tv stuff. However, I programmed my cable box remote to control everything, so I don't even break the other remotes out of the cabinet. Answer - I use only one.

[wetwilly]

I have 3 remotes for the tv stuff. However, I programmed my cable box remote to control everything, so I don't even break the other remotes out of the cabinet. Answer - I use only one.

In our family room, we also have 3 but like SJ we programmed the DishTV remote and control TV, VCR, and the cable with one. Unless we play the "Scene It" Jr game (it requires a DVD) and then we have to break out the other 2 to control the TV input and....never mind

In our AV room in the basement where we have the big TV and surround sound system, we have 3/4 and we need them all because the Dish remote can't do everything and the AV receiver remote can't either so we just use anwhere from 2-4 depending on the media we are using.

[Miss Kitty]

oh, ktchris...I feel your pain! We have a room that I call the "Penis Room"....HUGE TV, pool table and about 300 hundred remote controls. I have never been able to learn how to turn that TV on!!! My daddy loves that HD...my husband is not in to TV that much, but man, PawPaw does that back and forth thing too...I just grin and say..."wow, that's quite a difference!"
I picked the control with the fewest buttons and had the Direct TV guy program it for me! Boys love their gadgets...watch out now!

[Dabell]

Exactly how many remote controls does a man need to watch 1 TV!!!
My husband has 3!!! I can hardly stand it!! (by the way, he calls them ----- his weapons!!) So lets hear it guys, how many does it take!

I say, One Full time maid ( older than you and much more heavier than you). Or
Stick 1 on the wall and hide the others!

[Miss Kitty]

I say, One Full time maid ( older than you and much more heavier than you). Or
Stick 1 on the wall and hide the others!

???????????

[Landlocked]

I have 3 remotes for the tv stuff. However, I programmed my cable box remote to control everything, so I don't even break the other remotes out of the cabinet. Answer - I use only one.

I did the same thing and I can't ever find the damn thing. (I have a 16 month old little boy who likes to run off with it.) One day, somebody is going to put a button the tv you can press and the remote starts beeping like the phone will do.

[Dabell]

???????????

I mean hide them. So when your hubby is looking for one you can say, here!
About 15 years ago, while I was married, my hubby use to loose them all the time! One night I got so pissed and started thinhking what would make my life eazier? And I came up with an idea. So I told my husband, This is stupid! We have clappers to put lights on. and "Help I've fallen and I can't get up" necklesses. Why doesn't someone put a beeper on the TV so, when you can't find the control you can just press a button on the TV and a beep could go off to find the remote control! He looked at me and said : that is the stupidest Idea you ever had. Well, little to say RCA come out with it 5 years later...

[GraytonBound]

what's that got to do with a fat maid

[Miss Kitty]

what's that got to do with a fat maid

!!!!!!!

[Dabell]

GET a Maid to find his crap! Not the wife! she's got enough to do!

[Johnrudy]

I mean hide them. So when your hubby is looking for one you can say, here!
About 15 years ago, while I was married, my hubby use to loose them all the time! One night I got so pissed and started thinhking what would make my life eazier? And I came up with an idea. So I told my husband, This is stupid! We have clappers to put lights on. and "Help I've fallen and I can't get up" necklesses. Why doesn't someone put a beeper on the TV so, when you can't find the control you can just press a button on the TV and a beep could go off to find the remote control! He looked at me and said : that is the stupidest Idea you ever had. Well, little to say RCA come out with it 5 years later...

Now I can see why you didn't stay with each other!

[Miss Kitty]

GET a Maid to find his crap! Not the wife! she's got enough to do!

Love is a many splendored thing.....you sound like that Karen on "Will and Grace"!

[Dabell]

I mean hide them. So when your hubby is looking for one you can say, here!
About 15 years ago, while I was married, my hubby use to loose them all the time! One night I got so pissed and started thinhking what would make my life eazier? And I came up with an idea. So I told my husband, This is stupid! We have clappers to put lights on. and "Help I've fallen and I can't get up" necklesses. Why doesn't someone put a beeper on the TV so, when you can't find the control you can just press a button on the TV and a beep could go off to find the remote control! He looked at me and said : that is the stupidest Idea you ever had. Well, little to say RCA come out with it 5 years later...

And now he is gone and I have all the remote controls! And My son puts them back where he found it after he's done with it and he's only 12!

[OhioBeachBum]

3 - TV, VCR, and Bose HE system (+ one each for tv's in bedrooms) - thankfully, I don't do cable or dish boxes or I'd have more.

Brother bought a fancy "universal" when he added a Sony ceiling mount HDTV projector to his "entertainment area". Last I heard, he was periodically spending a fair chunk of time reprograming it (using the 4 remotes it's supposed to "replace" ).

There's a plus to multiple remotes - I usually find some spare change in one of the couches or chairs while rummaging around for the appropriate remote.

[kathydwells]

what's that got to do with a fat maid

For some reason that just cracked me up, GB!!!

[Mermaid]

oh, ktchris...I feel your pain! We have a room that I call the "Penis Room"....HUGE TV, pool table and about 300 hundred remote controls. I have never been able to learn how to turn that TV on!!! My daddy loves that HD...my husband is not in to TV that much, but man, PawPaw does that back and forth thing too...I just grin and say..."wow, that's quite a difference!"
I picked the control with the fewest buttons and had the Direct TV guy program it for me! Boys love their gadgets...watch out now!

I am so glad you said that Sueshore! I thought I was the only one in the world who couldn't figure out how to use the remote. I HAVE figured out how to turn the TV on and off but I'll NEVER figure out how to watch movies. It's too complicated for me! When my husband goes away on business, the kids have to do the VCR for their mother. They roll their eyes and wonder how they got such a technophobe for a parent.

[GraytonBound]

For some reason that just cracked me up, GB!!!

glad i could help

[Miss Kitty]

I am so glad you said that Sueshore! I thought I was the only one in the world who couldn't figure out how to use the remote. I HAVE figured out how to turn the TV on and off but I'll NEVER figure out how to watch movies. It's too complicated for me! When my husband goes away on business, the kids have to do the VCR for their mother. They roll their eyes and wonder how they got such a technophobe for a parent.

Yes my friend...and my bike has two "gears"...stop and go! When I pick out anything, I get the one with the fewest dials, buttons, switches, computer chips, etc.!!!! Really simple...simply real!!!

[lollygal]

Unfortunately, I am the techno person in the family. I am the one who knows how to hook it all up and which controllers work. My other half has still not learned how to turn on the D**N TV, DVD or cable box without assistance from MOI! It drives me crazy! I mean he does get through the day without me, right? (On second thought, maybe not!)

[Beach Runner]

What's a remote control? Almost everytime we walk into our house at Seagrove, there's a missing one. How do guests lose our remote controls? I just don't get it.

[Smiling JOe]

What's a remote control? Almost everytime we walk into our house at Seagrove, there's a missing one. How do guests lose our remote controls? I just don't get it.

I think you should get your guests used to getting up to change the channels. I have seen people stir their coffee with remote controls. Just another item to lock in the owner's closet.

[Beach Runner]

I think you should get your guests used to getting up to change the channels. I have seen people stir their coffee with remote controls. Just another item to lock in the owner's closet.

It's sad to have to resort to that.

[Smiling JOe]

It's sad to have to resort to that.

I guess you could always superglue them to the sofa.