<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> Incredibly useful when your 3 year old persistently stands right in the<br>
> line of sight of where the IR receiver would be.<br>
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</div>The Philips (Microsoft/Hauppauge/etc.) MCE remotes are actually pretty good as<br>
far as IR goes, they tend to work fine pointed in the wrong direction, around<br>
objects or small corners etc.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep I used to use one of those (MS) - it didn't manage to bend physics to achieve the aformentioned toddler-avoidance I now enjoy.</div></div>