A new DVD remote.

**Professor Kaos** · 01-18-2003

I found this at gamestop.com

The XBOX Universal DVD Remote is the best way to control the powerful DVD features of the Xbox game console. Navigate through menus, special DVD add-on footage, director's cuts, theatrical trailers - all from the comfort of you couch. Designed with industry standard Infrared technology, the DVD remote allows seamless, wireless control of your Xbox and television.
* DVD Movie Playback - unlocks the Xbox to enable playback of DVD movies
* Universal Centralized Device Control - Eliminate other remotes and
consolidate into this one single universal remote
* Learning Feature - Simple and customized programming of other remotes
eliminates the need for codes
* Comfortable Ergonomic Design - Narrow design that fits perfectly in
the palm for one-handed operation
* Glow-In-The-Dark Keys - Easily see buttons in total darkness
* Batteries Included

**maneatingcow** · 01-18-2003

Thats kinda cool, but with most universal remotes, you have to wonder exactly what it's compatable with.

Sucks when you buy one and your TV is one of the few it doesn't support

waffle.

**Professor Kaos** · 01-18-2003

Yeah, but sometimes you get lucky and dont have to use 4 different remotes like me (xbox,tv,vcr,surround sound)

**maneatingcow** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by Playya
Yeah, but sometimes you get lucky and dont have to use 4 different remotes like me (xbox,tv,vcr,surround sound)

Or loose one.. then never turn your TV off..... like me

waffle.

**Professor Kaos** · 01-18-2003

You can always just unplug the tv.

**maneatingcow** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by Playya
You can always just unplug the tv.

Takes a bit more effort than I am willing to show.

waffle.

**Professor Kaos** · 01-18-2003

Thats why most cows dont have T.V's

**DOOM** · 01-18-2003

But Can It Turn Your XBOX On & Off?

**No Fear 23** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by DOOM
But Can It Turn Your XBOX On & Off?

lol, that would be cool

**Kraft** · 01-18-2003

I wish MS would have made it so you could program your xbox remote into a cool universal remote, like those big lcd ones...

**AlBoogy** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by DOOM
But Can It Turn Your XBOX On & Off?

That was going to be my question. If it doesnt then it doesnt warrant a purchase.

**Hermes** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by DOOM
But Can It Turn Your XBOX On & Off?

It seems to me that allowing the remote to turn the Xbox on and off wouldn't have been a good idea anyway. Since the remote receiver plugs into a controller slot, allowing it to turn the Xbox power on and off would have meant that possibly by accident a controller command could have been interpretted as "shut the Xbox off." I know that would have been a miniscule possibility but Damn I would have been ****ed if it happened to me.

**Software2** · 01-18-2003

Originally posted by maneatingcow-XBA
Thats kinda cool, but with most universal remotes, you have to wonder exactly what it's compatable with.

Sucks when you buy one and your TV is one of the few it doesn't support

waffle.

Or, you could get a true universal remote where you have to program in each button individually (But you need an existing remote to do it)

That's what I do for my XBox and TV.

**frog11983** · 01-18-2003

yeah really, i wish the xbox could be turned off with a remote, it really ****es me off that i have to get up to turn it off, sometimes i just leave it on all night..... damn i'm lazy

**Cesar902** · 01-19-2003

nice, but it doesn't have the on and off button

**Cloud Strife** · 01-19-2003

That seems like an interesting idea. If I use my Xbox as a DVD palyer, I'll have four DVD players in my room. But, I think I'll leave my Xbox as a game system. A Universal Remote does seem tight.

**thunder** · 01-19-2003

But Can It Turn Your XBOX On & Off?

speaking of lazyiness would use find a system that could hopld several games at once with the option of allowing you to choice one each time you turned it on a good feature or a bad feature and if good do you think it will ever happen

Frostberg · 01-19-2003

Originally posted by Kraft-XBA
I wish MS would have made it so you could program your xbox remote into a cool universal remote, like those big lcd ones...

Some of the upper end ones have an option to "copy" the remote so all you have to do is like hit something and it copies all the button setups and options onto the lcd thing so its like using the remote you know so you dont have to figure out where the buttons could of been moved. I dont understand it fully, but it sounds neat...but I'm not willing to pay $100-$200 for a remote...