No. The lack of buttons annoys the hell out of me. Lose your remote? Oops, no TV for you. And frankly, I despise any product that emphasizes something completely superficial like looks over functionality. I pity the empty, vapid existence of people who actually get excited about such ridiculous design issues.
My TV has one button. My household has three teenage boys. The remote is always lost and I have to use that ONE button for everything.
Stupidest bullshit since taking headphone jacks out of phones.
Like, they sit in different places in the living room and leave the remote in different spots?
Get more remotes, and have your very own? Universal remotes have been around for a long time. IIRC Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, was involved with inventing them.
https://www.amazon.com/universal-remote/s?k=universal+remote
Can get one for less than $10 this Christmas, make the problem go away.
EDIT: Yeah, thought he was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL_9
CL 9 was a company that developed a universal TV remote control. It was started by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc. and designer of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers. CL 9 was in business for three years, from 1985 to 1988, launching the 6502-based CL 9 CORE remote control in 1987, which Wozniak calls the first programmable universal remote control.
EDIT2: Hah. Just noticed the CPU model. That’s the same processor that the Apple II had that he put in that remote.
I’m not saying your solution is complicated. You’re right, $10 is cheap and that is simple, but I will still counter with: I should not have to BUY ANOTHER PRODUCT TO USE THE ONLY INTENDED FUNCTION OF SOMETHING I’VE ALREADY PURCHASED.
I mean, you still don’t want to walk to the TV each time to fiddle with the controls, regardless of the design of them, right? Like, even if the on-TV controls were more-accessible, is that the route that you’d most-prefer to go, given the option?
Seems you posted an unpopular opinion.
I prefer mechanical buttons, for essential functions of a device/ machine.
Technology/software break down, nice to have the option of manual control.
TV companies can hide them in the back, so that is a design problem.
TV companies can hide them in the back, so that is a design problem.
Yep. Both of my TVs have controls on the back. One has the traditional row of up/down/channel/volume/etc buttons like you’d expect, another has four buttons with a little joystick in the middle that lets you navigate the menu system. Both work fine, well enough that I can change the inputs and the volume without fumbling through menus.
No. The buttons don’t bother me, and I like having options for when I misplace the remote.
So what do you do when you misplace your remote? Use the force and mind control it? Buttons are a very nice thing to have when you lose the remote or if the remote goes bad.
OP if your problem with buttons is looking at them, they figured out the solution to this back in the 70s: don’t put them on the front of the TV. TVs have been made with buttons on the top, bottom, and sides for literally decades, and with flat screens the back is perfectly fine, too.
A TV without buttons is a dealbreaker for me. If I can’t control it without the remote I’m not gonna be happy.
