It's amusing in the sense that some people fail to read the signs telling them to close and latch the door to set the windows to opaque. While I've never seen it, apparently, some people just go with the clear windows thinking it's one-way mirrored glass.
I'm also aware that the glass's unpowered state is opaque (in case of blackout).
Edison's London representative Al Abadie made a copy of Georges Melies's Le Voyages Dans La Lune and Edison systematically pirated it and showed it in the States. The copies even deleted the Melies Star Films trademark from the counterfeits.
This Sony remote is pretty good as an inexpensive learning remote.
One of the major problems with most cheap learning remotes is the lack of memory available to learn alot of functions. This one actually has enough keys and enough memory to totally memorize the functions for a Tivo remote with it's mass of buttons (4-way switch, menus, play/pause/slow, etc). It also has macros for those that have all of their TV sound output through their receiver (can turn TV and receiver on simultaneously).
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The Atlantic Monthly article was in the November 2003 issue. It's available online here.
There are a couple of pics here.
It's amusing in the sense that some people fail to read the signs telling them to close and latch the door to set the windows to opaque. While I've never seen it, apparently, some people just go with the clear windows thinking it's one-way mirrored glass.
I'm also aware that the glass's unpowered state is opaque (in case of blackout).
Edison's London representative Al Abadie made a copy of Georges Melies's Le Voyages Dans La Lune and Edison systematically pirated it and showed it in the States. The copies even deleted the Melies Star Films trademark from the counterfeits.
This Sony remote is pretty good as an inexpensive learning remote.
One of the major problems with most cheap learning remotes is the lack of memory available to learn alot of functions. This one actually has enough keys and enough memory to totally memorize the functions for a Tivo remote with it's mass of buttons (4-way switch, menus, play/pause/slow, etc). It also has macros for those that have all of their TV sound output through their receiver (can turn TV and receiver on simultaneously).
At $40 here, it's pretty decent for the price.
It's not the extreme high end, but it's enough to control my TV, Receiver, VCR, DVD, Laserdisc and have enough memory to copy my Philips Tivo remote.
Reviews are here and here.