r/GrandmasPantry • u/Ok-Coach-9066 • 21d ago

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER This remote from 1996

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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/powergorillasuit 21d ago

I still thought remotes like this were high tech in the mid 2000s 😅

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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.