On January 10, 2007 at 22:16, Mitch57 said...
I'm curious as to why everyone likes the rechargeable
remotes so much. To me they are a disaster waiting to
happen. The kids pick it up and use it half the night
and when you get up in the morning and pick up the remote
it's dead as a door nail. Now your forced to leave it
on the charger until charges up enough for you to use
it. I also don't like being "tethered" to the cradle.
At the end of the day the remote always has to find its
way to a charger that may not be where your sitting at
the time.
Everyone here has a cell phone which needs to be charged regularly, we got used to that. Most of us have cordless phones which have to be charged regularly, we all got used to that. Many of us have PDAs that have to be charged regularly, no problem, we got used to that too.
Rechargable remotes are no different. Like Pilgram said, what happens is that it is always charged and you always know where it is. It takes very little getting used to. At night when I put the cordless phone, cell phone and PDA on the chargers I drop the remote into the cradle.
Much like the other devices, if you don't put it back every day, so be it, the remote doesn't die that fast. I can get 3+ days out of my 950 and 3000 if I forget to charge them.
If you do find it dead, it will power up and operate as soon as you put it in the cradle so you're not
...forced to leave it on the charger
until charges up enough for you to use it.
You really do make it a normal part of your life pretty quickly.
