Which came first: the TV, or complaining about what you're watching? For years, changing channels meant an arduous climb out of the La-Z-Boy, until electronics pioneer Zenith came to the rescue ...

The Sitdown: Gerald McCarthy, former Zenith exec, sold 1st TV remote control By Sun-Times staff Dec 17, 2014, 2:34pm PDT ...

A bit of fun. I came across a mention of this on a recent No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. It's the Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote control, the very first TV remote, apparently... I'd never heard of it ...

The Zenith remote control has some handy, if not expected, functions including Flashbk for jumping to the last channel, Sleep for allowing the display to turn off after 10 - 240 minutes (user ...

Eugene Polley, inventor of the first wireless television remote control, died last month at 96. Polley, an engineer at Zenith, named his device Flash-Matic. It was introduced in 1955. In his New ...

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 t… ...

Such simplified, isolationist visions of remote control—remote control as brand loyalty—began in the mid-1980s when manufacturers like RCA and Sony experimented with preprogramming their ...

Regardless of how we solve it, the modernization of the universal remote is an initiative that isn’t just going to go away: it’s not unusual to have a Blu-ray player, Xbox 360, Apple TV, and ...