Remote Control hell

Got home, turned on the telly as usual and then tried to change the channel. Nothing. The universal remote that works the digital tuner wouldn't work. (just realized it did turn the tv on though it refused to do anything after that). I tried new batteries. Nada. I even tried the buttons on the digital tuner itself and nothing happened but that worked after i unplugged it and powered it back again. I had to change from channel 32 to 275 standing there waiting for it. The old fashioned way sort of! :) I called Eastlink just to see if there was anything else i could do but he seemed to think it was pretty dead too. Ok. well. I could go over to MicMac Mall and get a new one for about $20 (remote, not tuner). I couldn't even get the tv off then. Tried the tv's remote and it wasn't working either but turns out one of it's batteries was corroded. New batteries in that and i could turn the telly off.

Over to MicMac i go and present the dead remote. My tuner is really, really old, it was the first ones they were offering back when Accesswave was the cable provider in Dartmouth or it might have been when Shaw took them over because "Shaw" was on the remote. anyway. The nice lady there tried out a couple of pieces on their machinery and gave me one of them. No charge. :))))) Plus she left the batteries in it! Bonus! Got it home and it worked and i figured out the codes for the tv and vcr buttons on the universal too. Now i just have to get used to the locations of the buttons i spent the last 10 years using in other places on the remote! Poor old thing, it probably didn't even know what happened! Just one blurp and poof!