The official "Star Trek" phaser remote control zaps pretty much any TV, set-top box or music player in the galaxy. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen ...

Dhara Singh is one of CNET's summer interns and a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She loves digging deep into the social issues that arise from everyday technology. Aside from ...

I’m sitting on a couch in front of a giant flat-screen television, and after staring intently at the tablet in front of me, I manage to put on a daytime rerun of NCIS without lifting a finger. Today, ...

Remote Control is the newest feature from WAMG, whereas you — the reader — hold the power of suggestion. Consider yourself sitting in your own personal screening room. You’re in a big, comfy reclining ...

Most TV viewers take for granted the ability to change the channel from their couches with a remote control. That task may be near impossible for viewers with the most severe physical challenges. On ...

The main aim of this circuit is to design and demonstrate a simple 5 channel remote control system to drive five loads. The circuit works on the principle of IR communication. This article is aimed to ...

DENVER—Imagine Communications has enhanced ADC playout automation with the ADC Flex remote-ready control solution that enables media companies to access and control their broadcast chain from anywhere ...

Here we present a small, low cost single channel receiver, encoding MM53200 and HT-12, with code self-learning function. Decoding is achieved by means of a PIC microcontroller by Microchip, that deals ...

There are many heated word debates out there — is it soda or pop? Hair ties or ponytail holders? — but one that I was not expecting to feel so passionately about is what to call a channel changer. Or, ...

Anyone looking to bring additional smarts to their TV has probably stumbled upon Roku. The device is available in multiple formats — but its remote control has remained largely untouched with these ...