"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" wrote
in message ...
And what really gets my undies in a knot is that the only thing that may
be wrong with a VCR or TV, for example, is that the damn remote control
is bad, and there's no way to get a replacement that has full
functionality! Like you can buy a 'universal' remote, and it has the
usual volume, channel, play and record buttons, but you can't configure
the VCR because all that stuff was on the original remote, but not on
the VCR itself! And if you can't use the original, you can't do SPIT!
FURRFU!

The first ten minute power failure that comes along, and you not only
have to reset the date and time, but you have to re-enter all the
channels, too. And without the original remote, you're out of luck!

I have had very good luck locating specialist remote control vendors on the
Web. I think one of them is called Mr. Remote.