On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18:43 -0400, mm put
finger to keyboard and composed:

My Philips DVDR, model DVDR3576H (160 GB), only 3 years old, stopped
responding to my remote.

Moved the factory remote around 1/2 inch from the IR window and kept
the 1 button down for a while and finally got a 1 to show in the
channel display. Got a 5 the same way. Can't make an 11, and no
other buttons work either.

The uP inside the DVDR gets its user input from either the decoded IR
stream or the buttons on the front panel.

If one of the buttons were to stick, then that could produce the
observed symptoms. Can you still control the DVDR from the front
panel?

Alternatively, have you checked for IR interference, such as from your
lighting?

Is there a cockroach in the IR window? :-)

- Franc Zabkar
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