It seems that the TV remote control is not going to be consigned to the scrapyard just yet, but it's unlikely to dominate home entertainment systems forever.

Sure, there’s a more intuitive remote now with the release of the 2021 Apple TV 4K, but you’ll have to pay Apple prices to score one. Or even get a brand-new Apple TV 4K.

Once you’re set up, TV Remote provides a default set of controls tailored to your TV with on-screen buttons to navigate your TV’s UI, switch channels and sources, control volume, and everything else ...

Although the Apple TV 4K is a great streaming box, its remote control is—to put it lightly—polarizing. The symmetrical design is too easy to hold upside down, and it’s so thin that it often ...

Despite being thinner and sleeker, the IR remote control that comes with your brand new smart TV isn’t fundamentally different than what we were using in the 1980s.

Insert it between your TV’s IR receiver and the flame from a lighter, and pull the slots along to generate the coded pattern. Get it just right and you have a paper and lighter remote control.

Thanks to the magic of HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (or HDMI-CEC to its friends), you can control the PS5 just as well using the remote which came with your television. In this guide, we’ll ...

Maybe you've tried to consolidate all of these various remotes into one big universal control with lots and lots of buttons. The Gesture Remote offers something a bit different.

Forty percent of users ages 18 to 34 prefer to control their TVs with a smartphone or tablet instead of a remote, Petersen says, citing data from Altman Vilandrie & Co. and Research Now.

Apple clearly envisions this to be the one remote to control every single thing that you own. And that’s a lot of responsibility to heap upon one tiny little oblong.

The vastly improved Siri Remote that ships with the fourth-generation Apple TV includes dedicated volume buttons, which can be programmed to control volume levels on TVs and receivers, even via ...