Many small buttons, little operation.

Snake, Lolli, double dash - Remote confuse with such strange symbols on many tiny buttons. Even with Cheap lit the phones, but on the remote, they remain a half-century since the dark.
  Robert Adler, you can not make accusations. As the inventor of the wireless remote control in 1956 in Chicago the first models of the "Space Commander" device designed baptized, he missed the television clippers two buttons. One for channel selection, one for the volume.

Decades later, in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, "complained Eagle 2004 on the remote from today:" They have far too many buttons. "
While the remote itself should develop, eagle gave employers Zenith already with the successor models of the original remote ago: More buttons, more features, less overview.
"Tone regulated under Lautlosschalten"
The "Space Commander 600" brought to four switches in six functional - probably along with the first example of circuit-overload: To keep the green and red of the television screen by remote control to reinforce or to diminish, it was only the sound off and then actually to Channel-zapping provided keys.
RSS: NEW RELEASES BY FEEDFehlfunktion - Technology Macken, the millions of nerve-click the icon. The browser allows you to the RSS feed to add. to help ... After standing on this remote yet somewhat disconcerting great-looking statement: "Tone regulated under Lautlosschalten."
Today, some remotes have more buttons - 63 are for example, the combination TV-DVD Xoro HTC 1900d, 42 at a Toshiba television. This amount of keys has been consistently high, even in the eighties, there were TV remotes, which also contributed to the VCR. The problem: Apart from the fact that the amount of buttons on the control stick in comparison to the first "Space Commander" verdreißigfacht, is not much else happened: The buttons are buttons remained.
What they actually achieve, try the manufacturer imprinted with symbols to indicate. The works of course not - how could it be for each of 63 features both a symbol which is similarly understandable, as the pros and rewind icons are now?
Lolli an arrow as a symbol mt
The pitiful attempts icon to see, for example, like a great Lolli, on the side and as an arrow shaft (see photo gallery). With this key when you choose your TVs from Toshiba, which image signal they play (HDMI input, DVB-T, component input).
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Even more confusing, some of the 63 buttons on the remote Xoro for HTC 1900d: Da snakes, for example, an arrow from top left to bottom right. Equally confusing: On two of the 63 keys will zoom (even in black and red and round, even in light gray with a button with arrows and dash).
Such symbolism provides remote Nico Jurran, video technology editor for IT-specialist magazine "c't" as a weakness of many remotes. In the test everyday annoyed Jurran also very often these weaknesses:
Micro-buttons, an adult can not press rubber buttons or slides, which no haptic feedback gebenzu facing strong infrared emitter in the remote or too weak in the receiver unit, which targets an accurate erfordernTasten, in various different modes of operation (or none ) Functions habendie bad habit, including keys, which are often used to disappear behind a door to let
Looking at the large buttons monster from now on, you must ask itself what is actually in the last decades of remotes has changed. On most models supplied are the symbols of the buttons on the television evening twilight difficult to detect. Why are the keys are not illuminated, as nowadays with every low-cost mobile phone? And why almost always feel all the keys apart from rocker switch for volume and channel selection - similar to?
Eventually, the gesture control come
The requested manufacturers Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba have specific questions on development projects for intuitive operations, according to specially shaped or illuminated buttons are not answered. Toshiba spokeswoman Kerstin Oppermann promises still possible changes for a future not certain: "Remotes are an ongoing project with which our engineers and designers employ. Toshiba is researching even out completely by a remote control gestures and voices to be replaced. "
"This should be the user interface?"
Until that could help shed some light. blogs ONLINE readers Christian Schlender annoyed: "The devices are known to me with countless buttons, which is randomly distributed, also unlit and mostly very small. The remote is apparently a stepfather of the child development departments. It is not for sustaining the aims and the user interface? "
There are certainly innovations. Accessory manufacturers such as Logitech miss their remotes, for example, high-tech extras such as touch-sensitive displays, but also require a few hundred euros per unit.
That we as a manufacturer also supplied standard remotes miss a few extras may have many years ago the Japanese electronics company Akai for its digital video recorders showed. The turn of the millennium in Germany sold low-cost model Akai VSJ 718 cost less than 300 marks and was offered alongside popular technique (6-head model, NTSC playback, Long Play) also includes an illuminated remote control that can also easily be found again if they once again somewhere under the sofa had vanished.
As with mobile phones today began the Akai remote control to peep at, if the counterpart to the base - the VCR - the Suchtaste pressed. Some buyers, the very pleased ("... families with children know what I'm talking about, this feature can be very high prices ...", "particularly interesting for people FORGETFUL"), Akai could not help it. After a bust brand now belongs to a Chinese electronics conglomerate, operating under the name sells appliances.
With Akai is also illuminated, and if necessary the remote Pieps disappeared and the standard models look like this all again, as always: many buttons, comic icons, no light.
As the co-remote Robert Adler 2004 on the buttons many of today's devices railed, he added: "I can not change it. I would just like to yell at someone, if I would find the right person."
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