JP1 remotes with a . button for ATSC TV tuners?

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bizzybody
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JP1 remotes with a . button for ATSC TV tuners?

Post by bizzybody »

The American ATSC digital broadcast channels use a decimal point. For example, channel 6 is the analog NTSC signal while 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 etc are the ATSC digital channels assigned to a station currently broadcasting on NTSC 6.

The factory remotes that come with ATSC televisions have a decimal point button for directly tuning to digital channels.

Is there a JP1 remote with a decimal point button?
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Post by The Robman »

No, but there's nothing stopping you from treaing another button as the "decimal point" button.
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Post by bizzybody »

But first one must know the code(s) used for the decimal point button by various televisions with ATSC tuners, if you're going to reassign a button on a remote that doesn't already have that button.

If I can find my learning remote, I'll do a profile for the Magnavox remote I have, which is used with over a dozen flat panel TVs with ATSC tuners. I'd already tried all the Magnavox profiles in the files section and none had a decimal point assignment in them :P

If UEI isn't yet making a remote with a decimal point button for ATSC TV (or other digital broadcast standards that use it), they're wayyyy behind the curve. Analog NTSC will come to a screeching halt in 2009.
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Post by binky123 »

UEI uses the dash (-) instead of the decimal point on remotes like URC-6820/8820/10820.
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Post by MaskedMan »

binky123 wrote:UEI uses the dash (-) instead of the decimal point on remotes like URC-6820/8820/10820.
Also on the original 6131, the advance key ->] has a dash next to it.
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Post by irs009 »

I just learned the decimal point from my 1 yr old 51" Magnavox TV:

RC5 DEV 3 OBC 120 HEX 1C or 1D or 1E
EFC 178 or 170 or 194

EFC 170 works for me.

Good Luck, Jack
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