Dish remote with Magnavox TV/DVD combo

Illinifan

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Jan 10, 2008
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I have an old Magnavox TV/VCR combo and it seemed like I pushed that button about 600 times before it locked in, but I did get it to work.

I also spent an evening trying to find a code that would allow me to use the Dish remote to run the VCR...no luck.
 

Peter Parker

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Very few "Universal" remotes support combos. Remotecentral.com might help. It might tell you that your unit si like another. Worth a shot at least.
 
Mar 3, 2006
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i had the same problem scanned till i started getting blister.. had my daughter do it since its her tv and well she gave up after her finger started cramping up..lol i just tell her well when i was your age i had to get up and change the channels and had to get up to turn tv off.. she thinks i was kidding but my grandmother has one of those old tvs and i took her over there so she could see what i had to do and she said "how could you live like that getting up every 2 mins?" i guess she knows now why i was so skinny when i was a kid..lol
 

GNASH

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Sep 2, 2007
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i had the same problem scanned till i started getting blister.. had my daughter do it since its her tv and well she gave up after her finger started cramping up..lol i just tell her well when i was your age i had to get up and change the channels and had to get up to turn tv off.. she thinks i was kidding but my grandmother has one of those old tvs and i took her over there so she could see what i had to do and she said "how could you live like that getting up every 2 mins?" i guess she knows now why i was so skinny when i was a kid..lol

Gave me quite a chuckle with this. You must not have had the heart to tell her they didn't have that many channels to change too.

Geoff
 

iwannarock1

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Oct 18, 2007
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Anyone had any luck getting a dish remote to run one of these?

Any time you want to do a manual code search for combo units, instead of pressing "up arrow" press the down arrow instead. You'll start at the other end of the codes, and I usually find a combo unit code within the first 20-30 clicks or so.

Save yourself a thumb injury:p, carpal tunnel syndrome:eek:, or a callused thumb:D
 
Mar 3, 2006
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Gave me quite a chuckle with this. You must not have had the heart to tell her they didn't have that many channels to change too.

Geoff

you should of saw her face... i freaked her out already about the getting up part... i could not bring my self to telling her about how many channels we had... but i can always sit with her and watch tom and jerry, pink panther and scooby doo. thats the best...
 

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