July 1st, 2015
Years ago my grandparents bought me a TV to attach to my very first camera. I'm talking about a camera from the late '90: I was six when grandpa started to teach me how to film. To edit movies you needed your camera, some sort of editing machine and a screen to see what you were doing.
Years passed by and cameras evolved. Instead of editing movies via TV screens, you can now easily pair your camera with a computer and edit the whole thing with a single mouseclick. That's why I decided to use the TV no longer as "merely a screen". I connected it to the satellite and started to watch TV in bed.
The remote control and I have never been best budies, though. I've lost count of all the times the thing vanished into thin air and was only found because it fell on the ground.
A few months ago, during one of those falls, the remote control transmitter broke. I couldn't repair it: no transmitter I could get my hands on fitted the remote control. Replacing the whole thing wasn't an option either: the company that made the TV went bankrupt early '00.
I tried using a universal remote control instead, but the TV brand is so unknown, not a single universal remote control works...
All that rested me, was going back to basics. Since the transmitter broke, I always have to get up, walk to the TV and use one of the buttons on the side of the television.
Two weeks ago, those buttons started to mix up signals: I want to change channels, but the volume increases, I want to turn it off and the channel switches...
Yesterday it had become so annoying, I went to my parents bedroom to complain about it. When I returned to my room, I heard a faint whisper: "Try your remote control again."
Thinking the thing wouldn't work -the transmitter's busted and the batteries had probably run out by now- I did what the voice told me. It's not that I had anything to lose, right?
I picked up the remote control and pressed the on/off- button. The TV went on?! I pressed another button. It worked! The freaking remote control suddenly worked! How is that possible?!
Did dad fix it?
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