1.0 out of 5 stars Critical flaw, took 85yr old 10sec to mess ups
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017
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I had great hope for this, as I am tired of constantly running over to my 85yr's apartment to "fix" the TV and I hate the monthly call with the cable company trying to get them to remove the pay per view and movies she accidentally buys. She only speaks Spanish, so when things go wrong she just starts pushing one of the hundred buttons on the two remotes tying to make things work,
So what is so bad about this? They power button only sends a signal for as long as you push it. What this means is that a quick press of the power button may be sufficient to turn on the TV, but not a long enough signal to turn on the cable box. All it takes is a single incident of this and the TV and cable box are out of sync, then when the TV goes on the cable box goes off and vice versa. She has no idea what is wrong and just pushes the button over and over tuning one on and the other off. This needs to be improved to send a burst of a second or two every time the power button is pressed so that there is sufficient signal to make sure both devices are turned on or off at the same time.
This one has to go back...