Am I right to ASSume that everyone else knows their remote control buttons by touch?

[StageLeft]

For years now I've made it a point that when I get a new controller I can pick it up and orient myself with it without looking so that I don't have to look at it to change channels (since I change channels like a crazy man all the time). I know where power is, my 4 pre-set channels, volume, mute, and channel up/down. So does everyone else do this or do you actually waste the effort to look at what buttons to press?

 

[Viper GTS]

I know how to find the functions I use most often, but probably 75% of the buttons on both my TV & DVD remote go unused.

Viper GTS

 

[bootymac]

Its the one thing you use almost every day of your life. Get used to it

 

[Joyride]

I have around 5 remotes and i know them all by touch pretty much

 

[calpha]

I don't know mine by touch. I had way damn to many and the wife said to get rid of the clutter.

My remote is a Universal OmniRemote for Handspring, so I have to look.

 

[RossMAN]

I know the basic buttons by heart.

Power
TV / DirecTV
Volume
Channel

 

[FrogDog]

Yep, I know my starchoice statelite remote by heart. And it's got a lot of buttons too!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yes, I know where every single key of the 102 keys I have on my remote are, even in the dark.



Nik

 

[Geekbabe]

LOL,are you asking if we know how to push buttons blindfolded or in the dark?

 

[Sir Fredrick]

No TV for me...so no remote for me.

 

[DaLeroy]

Yup

Tho, the multi million dollar question is,

"Can you surf ATOT by touch?"

 

[TonyG]

I can work the basic button, power/channel/sound/mute all in my sleep I can even find the remote in my sleep most of the time because it stays on the trunk next to my bed. I know I have turned my TV off many times in my sleep, and have also found it on completely different channels or sound turned way down or muted. So, yes I know the main buttons by heart.

 

[Adul]

I know it enough to do it in my sleep.

 

[tasslex]

I know all 5 I have in my living room mine by touch, don't have to look.

I am resisting getting one of those $200 do it all touchscreen remotes just because it won't have tactile buttons.

 

[eshrai]

hm. i don't have a remote...in fact...i don't have a tv!....argh.

 

[TallBill]

200 bucks for a remote.. kinda seems like a waste no matter how much dough you got.... but yeah.. i use my remotes about once a week and i know every button..

 

[Lars]

Yes, of course.

 

[kami]

Yes, nearly every button.
What makes it even sadder is that this is my remote and each key has a different function for each of the 4 devices I control with it. :Q

 

[dexter333]

Yes, I know all three by touch. (TV, VCR, and keyboard). I can even work the touchscreen register at work with out looking sometimes. And faster than the rest of the people at my work. Yeah it's sad, but I can help 50 customers in the time it takes others to help 30.