> > > > Heheheh...how about the TV section of your less than favorite department > store? > > You could also use the signals from the other remotes to tell you when the > store is open, and when it's not. fun and evil thing??? :) just "plant" a small IR emmiter box in front of those "hundreds" of TVs in the store, to do nothing else than just "power on/off" in several manufacturers IR codes, every 10 minutes... it would be funny or what? ... or just "plant" it in your shirt pocket, with the IR led going out as a shirt button, and ask the sales guy to demonstrate that special TV set... on/off/on/off... ... or program the thing to issue the power off command 10 seconds after receive any external IR remote command. ... or just generate a continuous 37kHz train pulse in IR and "paint" all the ambient, while the other guys would try to use the useless remotes... for sure I suppose nobody would be so evil to do that, but we smile just thinking about it, please don't do that. :) Wagner