"somebody" wrote:
I mean the Netflix, Amazon, Sling and Google buttons.
It really annoys me if I'm watching something and accidentally hit one of those instead of Rewind.
I can get to the channels I use easily enough with Home and a couple of arrows, but if I just want to catch a bit of dialogue I missed and hit one by mistake all of a sudden it's exiting whatever I'm watching and it's firing up Sling (usually that's the one I hit by mistake).
IMO It was a poor design choice to put these buttons on the remote in the first place. Despite it being thicker I much prefer the old 2XS remote which I still use on one of my TVs..
So far I've found 2 suggestions on other forums around the internet.
1: Just put tape over them
2: Take the remote apart and and literally destroy the contacts on the circuit board for those buttons..
I don't want to do EITHER of those things. Having the ability to reprogram them would be nice. I could reprogram them to NULL or to just Rewind or maybe even to Volume and Power for my TV. Then I wouldn't need two remotes just to watch TV.
I hope Roku got paid well by those 4 companies because it seems to be more of an annoyance than a benefit to customers.
In fact I even discovered some models have a button for Rdio which I never even heard of and is apparently a defunct company so the button is useless now anyway.
Option 3, if your prepared to take the remote apart, put some insulating material between the contacts ( ie plastic) that can be removed if you wish, saves physically destroying anything, although it will invalidate any warrantee
