Universal Remote Controls Explained

Series Summary

Do you ever find yourself sitting on the couch, trying to spend some well-earned time unwinding before you have to make dinner, clean the kitchen, pay the bills and do some office work from home? Okay, let’s be realistic. Have you ever been sitting on the couch, bored out of your gourd, after you’ve had a few brews, but you can’t figure out how to make the television volume go up, or the DVD player to advance to the next scene, or the satellite dish to turn to Telstar 3? You’re stuck there on the sofa, unwilling to move, but madly using every bit of your imagined telekinetic powers to make it happen. Well, that no longer has to be the case, my friend.

In this free home entertainment video series, learn how to use a universal remote control. A universal remote is just what it sounds like: it’s a device that allows you to control several different home electronics appliances at once—like the stereo, DVD player, VCD, TV, satellite dish, etc. The complexity of the remote can vary, but in this day and age, it’s probably a good idea to have one. Our expert will walk you through some of the basic functions and buttons, including how to program the universal remote code in, so that it will work with all of your components. Now surely you can figure out how to watch these short instructional videos and get crackin’ on your afternoon of maxin’ and relaxin’.

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Rick Kennedy and I want to show you how to program your universal remote for Expert Village. For this particular remote, we have three connections that we can use. There's an auxiliary and you can put a VCR or a DVD recorder or a TEVO system. We have our television connection as well and you can put any type of television you have on there and with those connections it has also my cable. There's my power connector right there as well, and there is my set-up. On the remote is also has the different functions that we can use once we program our components. We have the, also the VCR, the VCR connections here as well. And here is the volume control, channels, last channel, and other functions as well. Also we have the mute button if you want to turn down the sound. And there are our numbers to switch manually the different channels."