re: #123 BeachDem

I know, right? If all else fails, I’ll get my 20-something neighbor (and/or her five-year-old daughter) to come over and figure it out for me.

I now have four remotes in play. The new cable remote (which I believe also makes toast) with its 9800 buttons, does not, for some reason, have the ability to change over to the HDMI input, which requires the original TV remote—then, once there, the BlueRay remote comes into play. And there’s a VCR remote for when I want to go old school. Arggghhh.

Chances are good your new cable remote doesn’t have the codes for your TV or your Blu-ray built in, so it doesn’t know how to talk to the boxes, essentially. So the TV remote is needed to tell the TV which input you want it to listen to: the cable box or the Blu-ray? Then, you use the Blu-ray remote to control the Blu-ray, while you use the cable remove to control the cable box.

Your last cable box was probably set up to listen to your TV remote. It’s probably possible to do it with the new one too, but I need specific info on remote types, etc. in order to find clear directions.