Cut slots into a piece of paper to represent the IR remote control bitstream for putting your TV into standby. Insert it between your TV’s IR receiver and the flame from a lighter, and pull the ...

Apple is far from a perfect company, but the one thing that users can always count on is that the brand's family of high-end electronics can work in sync with one another. Chances are if you have ...

Compared to the olden days of television, where you could use just about any $5 remote control from Circuit City with your set, the remotes that come with smart devices like an Amazon Fire TV are ...

However, there may be times when you need to control your Samsung TV without the remote, like when it stops working, the batteries run out, or you misplace it. The good news is that you can still ...

Your iPhone can do many things, but here’s one ability you might not have considered: with the right app you can turn it into a remote control for your smart TV. In this article we show you a ...

Once you’re set up, TV Remote provides a default set of controls tailored to your TV with on-screen buttons to navigate your TV’s UI, switch channels and sources, control volume, and everything else ...

The apps and accessories below, for example, will turn the Apple Watch into a remote control for controlling a TV from your wrist. Roomie Remote is a Wi-Fi-based universal remote app for home ...

You can’t use this remote with older devices, but using your standard TV to control your Chromecast is technically possible. Even if it’s an older, non-Google TV iteration. HDMI-CEC is ...

Last year we saw Swiss telco Salt launch an alternative remote control for the Apple TV 4K set-top boxes that it includes in its domestic broadband TV bundle, and yesterday AppleInsider surfaced ...

Like some of its competitors the $40 Fire Stick's remote has buttons for volume, mute and power, allowing you to control those functions on your TV -- and maybe ditch your TV remote. Those remote ...