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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: dem audio/video manufacturers is sneaky
Message-ID: <1989Aug16.124850.28462@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 16 Aug 89 12:48:50 GMT
References: <506@ontek.UUCP>
Organization: Disillusioned Graduate Hackers, Santa Barbara, CA
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mikey@ontek.UUCP (Mike Lee) writes:
~  BUT WAIT: The integrated remote, a Technics, had somehow coerced  this
~  poor  fellow (subliminally) into buying three shelves full of Technics
~  equipment! I have also noticed Yamaha and other  "respectable"  brands
~  attempting this trick.
~  We must stop this infrared remote brainwashing now!

Just do what my friend and I do... order the service manual, find the
remote lines, cut them, and splice (via some electronics) into the
buttons on your non-remote equipment.  This is very easy to do for anyone
with *any* electronics experience and a lot better than buying lots of
cheap rack equipment.

-- 

Todd Day  |  todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us  |  ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"It's not the heat, it's the stupidity"  ---  Angry Poodle B-B-Q