I was screwing around with my remote and sent an advanced code of 254 to my Hitachi Ultravision TV (device code: 0154). Now, the Magic Focus option is NOT supposed to be accesible from the remote. But this was different. It had the Word "INITIAL" written on the screen during the focusing process. It then blanked for a few seconds then the screen turned green. I left it that way for 15 mins. I gave up and powered it down. When I powered it back up everything was fine.

I've found codes before that do strange things like turn the brightness all the ways up (or down), but I've NEVER seen this! Anyone have any idea what it is? Sounds like a factory setup for focusing the mirrors. Seemed to have taken longer than a standard magic focus. None of the other TV settings were reset.

Undoubetdly it was a factory setup IR code. Recently, in the process of getting all the
working EFC's I could find for my new RCA vcr,
I found a code for "DISPLAY" (on screen info),
except it worked and looked a little differently
than the remote's DISPLAY function (although the
remote's DISPLAY function was on a different code). When you hit this factory code, it had all
the regular DISPLAY information, but in the middle of the screen it says "Batteries are low on the remote". So I went along with the joke and checked
my remote's batteries to see if this was true.
It was a lying DISPLAY function. Still, interesting... never know what you might find
fooling around with these codes. You could
also hit something harmful to your equipment, apparently.

Hmm, do you think when the original remote's batteries really do get low it changes the display function to the new code? Would make sense.

Mr. Tonks,

Yes, either the display button, as you say, or it
follows all transmissions with that code, or
replaces all transmissions with that code, or
it's just an allowance for such a feature in a
higher-end model with has the same programming,
and a nicer remote.

I found a similar code for my Samsung TV. It
puts a low remote battery message right in the
middle of the screen for a few seconds. I
haven't had the TV long enough for the remote to
use up its first set of batteries, however, so I
can't be sure if the original remote ever
actually sends that code.

-=Ingenious=-

> Hmm, do you think when the original remote's > batteries really do get low
> it changes the display function to the new code? > Would make sense.

It WOULD make sense, wouldn't it? But it doesn't do that, though. Out of curiousity, I tried the remote with really weak batteries and never got the "special" display message. You could be right about the function being available on higher end models perhaps, but it doesn't appear to be on mine (and there's no mention of it in the manual to indicate it is there).