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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   Have any of you noticed that your remote control, for a tv or whatever,   
   doesn't work at first, if you haven't used it for a day or two?   
      
   I keep thinking the batteries have died, but after a couple minutes it   
   usually works.   
      
   I try to warm up the batteries by pressing one button or another 10 or   
   20 times and that doesn't seem to work but a fwe minutes later, things   
   are fine.   
      
   One complication: I'm not controlling the TV directly.  I'm shining  the   
   remote on PowerMid that uses radio waves to communicate with a receiver   
   in my bedroom that uses a thin cable to send infrared to a little bead   
   that is stuck in front of the IR receiver on the DVDR.  But the powermid   
   has a red light that goes on when I'm shining the remote at it, and that   
   does go on.  Still, I don't think that is the cause of the delay.   
      
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