[DavidinCT]

Originally Posted by acslam

Well! Here's something I bet you guys will find interesting....

Take a remote control. Something like the one you have for your TV, cable box, stereo, etc. Notice the little "black window" OR "clear LED that doesn't light up" sticking out of the front of the remote control.

Now take your cellphone with camera, or, for that matter, ANY digital camera.....and look "right down the barrel" of your remote control. Make sure the camera app is open, so that what you see on the camera screen is the very front end of the remote control, pointed directly at the camera.

Now, press a button on the remote control, and watch your phone/camera screen.

If you're lucky enough to have a phone with the right type of imaging chip in it (and the vast majority of them do)......you should have noticed a bluish light on the screen of your camera that your eyes couldn't see in "real life"......This is the infrared signal the remote sends to the TV.

Yep, worked in a mid to high end audio / video store 10+ years ago. When people came in with their remotes and said they didn't work. Try new batteries then head to the camcorder row, as they all worked like that