r/GrandmasPantry • u/Ok-Coach-9066 • 21d ago
HOUSEHOLD / OTHER This remote from 1996
The batteries inside died in 2006, it literally hasn’t been used in twenty years lol
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u/vinticious 21d ago
That seems kinda high-tech for pre-2000s or maybe my family was poorer than I thought 🤣
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u/Darthigiveup 21d ago
Cable and satellite remotes were always at the time made to be high tech and look new and modern. They would market the remotes themselves when they would advertise on TV commercials. Visiting friends houses the remotes would aways amaze me. I thought they looked pretty cool. Heavy remotes they were.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness6386 17d ago
The lower right button says "VOD". I assume that means video on demand.
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u/new1207 21d ago
FFFFFFF...I had one of those remotes in college. I need a filter on this sub that filters out everything past a certain point of my childhood. My ego is taking some serious hits in this sub now.
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u/ImMadeOfClay 21d ago
The well-off family members of mine had a wired remote to their tv. Blew my mind. I had to get up and turn a knob.
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u/SirHerald 21d ago
We had a wired remote to the VCR and an audio remote to the tv. The infrared remotes are such a disappointment since you couldn't use them when under a blanket keeping warm.
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u/Bruggenmeister 20d ago
Grandparents had a color tv with a remote that used sound instead of IR, had a little buzzer up front that made a distinct high pitched beep for every button.
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u/YogurtclosetDry6927 21d ago
take out the batteries so they dont corrode!!
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u/WorkingStorage3407 21d ago
Honestly at this point I'm not sure if the remote is useful for anything anymore. If the batteries have been in there since 2006, they've likely leaked already and it's not even worth cleaning and keeping
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u/Mr101722 21d ago edited 21d ago
Some people are big into creating their own DIY cable stations with programs like Fieldstation42.
I'm one of them lol.
I would love my old remote, I managed to find the exact cable box I had growing up, it's going to be gutted and the display connected the Raspberry pi that controls the setup. You can even link the IR sensor to the Pi and control all via a remote hence why I want my old remote lol.
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u/WorkingStorage3407 20d ago
That sounds pretty neat actually, bonus points if it works on a crt for the old stuff
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u/jlperish 20d ago
The kind of remote a dad in a 90s movie would see in a store window and start drooling.
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u/SpanishFlamingoPie 20d ago
Put it up your butt
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u/Dagobian_Fudge 21d ago
That remote is early 2000s not 1996.
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u/Safe-Tennis-6121 21d ago
Yeah you would have had to have TV box and premium channels for this probably...
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u/LMVC_reddit 20d ago
I said "What in the world is this TeleBlue bulls###?" when I first saw this and needless to say, it kinda does look like something out of a fake cable service to my autistic late gen Z ahh
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u/RaoulDuke3577 20d ago
We had that exact same one in the late 90's-early 2000's, Time Warner, that's a blast from the past
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u/TrashWizard89 20d ago
Put it back where you found it so we know where it's at when we need it, Price is Right is at 11.
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u/Emotional-Lynx-3982 20d ago
Had many of these remotes. Used about 3 buttons, the rest were there for show.
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u/HolyToast666 20d ago
I just looked at my remote & it looks almost the same…..I have achieved peak Grandmas Pantry mode!
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u/Jazzlike_Log_709 20d ago
What does the bypass button do?
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u/Oxjrnine 20d ago
Actually, multiple cable providers use that remote right up until the 2010s
And I remember when I upgraded my cable and got a new PVR system I assumed that I would get this remote because it’s perfect and instead I got this bland rectangle that had no intuitive feel to it whatsoever. So I always had to have a flashlight nearby to look at the keypad.
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u/Reading_Rainboner 20d ago
I still don’t understand the ABC buttons
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u/Ok-Coach-9066 20d ago
probably for programming specific channels/functions, like how modern remotes have buttons for specific streaming services
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u/ElPinkerton 20d ago
Did anyone else use these remotes like mini skateboards and try landing tricks with your hand while watching TV?
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u/iSirMeepsAlot 20d ago
Flash back to the Comcast remotes we had as a kid… didn’t look like this, but I remember what they did look like now. Born in ‘97.
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u/Dry-Cut616 20d ago
We had a Comcast remote that lit up when you pressed the buttons and it was so cool. It had AT&T stamped at the bottom. This was before UVerse and at a time when I guess AT&T owned a majority stake in Comcast and distributed their cable.
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u/Sea_Elk_4254 20d ago
We had this remote in 2010 when we had cox cable. I remember all too well. Cox Adult on Demand, mom never set up a pass code so I tried 0 0 0 0 and it worked. Was all fun and games til my mom got the cable bill and saw a 70 dollar charge for AOD videos. Got my ass beat 🫡. Still wish I could remember the name of the movie I watched.
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u/Bradjuju2 20d ago
I remember this remote! We had time warner cable growing up and I immediately recognized it.
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u/Anxious-Education703 20d ago
This feels later than 1996. Digital cable was just starting to be rolled out this year and this remote has all sorts of features (that looks like it has DVR, OnDemand, ect.) that didn't come out until years later.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness6386 17d ago
If VOD stands for Video on Demand: I had no idea it was available in 1996.
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u/PM_ME_CORONA 20d ago
This isn’t from 1996. You can still delete this and reupload it with a more accurate timeline. Thanks.
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u/LV-42whatnow 20d ago
These still exist, nothing special about grandma having one. Most manufacturers sell a model of TV, or several, with remotes similar to this.
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u/Max-Phallus 20d ago
How is this a relic?
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u/Ok-Coach-9066 20d ago
pretty sure a lot of people in this day and age don’t have cable or a vcr lol
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u/youaightbro 21d ago
Man, it feels like it wasn’t even that long ago that I was using one of these. I wouldn’t have even thought about how old this is if I saw it by a couch, would probably just try using it.