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Topic: | need to adjust 16 tv's This thread has 5 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Monday January 10, 2000 at 13:23 |
I need to adjust the volume/mute on 16 different tv's to test sound and video for videos played off of a server. Any idea which remote can do this? Cheaper the better of course. The platform is NT but I don't think that should matter. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks... Eric
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OP | Post 2 made on Monday January 10, 2000 at 16:06 |
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Assuming you only need volume up, volume down, and mute, that's three functions. I can think of a way to make a Cinema 7 IQ (URC-7800) control three functions on 19 devices, and that's before you figure in the learning abilities. Factor that in, and it goes up to at least 24.
Since the Cinema 7 is only supposed to be able to control 7 devices, you'd have to put functions on buttons where they don't technically belong, like putting the controls for one TV on the 1, 4 and 7 buttons, another TV on the 2, 5 and 8, buttons, etc. It wouldn't be pretty, but it would work.
Also, the Cinema 7 IQ is relatively inexpensive, at aynwhere from $16.50 to $25, depending on where you shop.
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OP | Post 3 made on Monday January 10, 2000 at 22:20 |
David B. Historic Forum Post |
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And... since the cinema6/7 learning remoted can have a macro assigned to just about any key, you could conceivably have one press of the MUTE button mute all (OK, only 15) TVs. The macro feature has a limit of 15 button presses, but if you're standing near at least ONE TV, then manuall press the mute button on it.
Then again, a Pronto could do this in a flash. Any button on a pronto can have up to 255 actions assigned to it. You can put as many different buttons on a single touch screen panel as will fit, and there are several hard buttons including mute, vol-up and vol-dn. It's not cheap compared to a Cinema, but if it does the job...
Dave
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OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday January 11, 2000 at 01:29 |
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For $300-$400 a Pronto ought to be able to do your taxes, and change your socks for you.
Assuming we follow from the fact that he said that "Cheaper the better of course", I'd assume that the Pronto would never make it onto the list of contenders.
If he wants a mute macro for all 16, it could be a problem, but one way around this is to have the mute for the first TV on one button, and the mute functions for the 15 remaining TVs on a macro button right next to it. That way, you just hit the first TV's mute, which finishes fast, and while that's happening you move your finger over to the macro key, which handles the other 15 while you wait.
As I said before, it wouldn't be pretty, but it would work. (And it would be cheap.)
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OP | Post 5 made on Tuesday January 11, 2000 at 18:03 |
Dennis Historic Forum Post |
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Seems to me that if he can afford 16 TV's ........
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OP | Post 6 made on Tuesday January 11, 2000 at 20:33 |
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I suspect that he is not in direct ownership of these 16 TVs, but rather must tend them in a professional sense. If this is the case, then this, combined with his request for an inexpensive solution, would seem to invalidate your implied conclusion.
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