On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:17:18 GMT, Jem Berkes wrote:

I posted about this earlier (Hitachi CT7883) with the original Video Brain
Remote Transmitter CLU-600PR which broke down over time. The Hitachi VCR
remote control, however, could still control the television perfectly!

But * after * trying an RCA universal remote, the television stopped
responding entirely to even the good remote control. Now I have obtained a
factory remote replacement as per Hitachi's tech support and even this can
not control the television set. The TV stopped responding to remote
controls.

I'm quite certain that the programming efforts of the universal remote put
the TV into a bad state. If I can clear the nonvolatile memory somehow,
this should fix things. But even leaving the TV unplugged had no success.

Any ideas? Is there anything else I can do, short of calling in a repair
person to look at a 13 year old TV set?

Anything is possible, but I can't understand how the use of a remote
control can affect the TV in this way. A much more likely suspect is
that someone has at some time cleaned the screen by spraying it
directly rather than spraying the cleaning cloth, and this is just a
matter of coincidental timing.

Tom