Remotes that work with projectors?

[ffutures]

People keep nicking the projector remote controls from our labs, and they are VERY expensive if you buy the real thing.

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced universal remote that will work with Sanyo and Epson projectors? I'm despairing of getting a straight answer out of the One-for-all people. I'd like to buy several, so the price needs to be as low as possible.

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[nojay.livejournal.com]

The Pound Store places sell universal remote control handsets for a quid each. You might consider getting one just to try it out and see if you can make it work with the projectors you've got.

The biggest problem you're likely to run into is that any non-original remote handset will lack some important control functions -- OTOH I remember getting a universal handset once that worked better than the original in that a VCR I had would respond to some of the channel-selection buttons that were missing on the original minimalist handset supplied by the manufacturer.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I've just spent an hour or so doing exactly that with a remote from Poundland. Can't get a result.

Pretty much the only buttons we need are on/off, arrows, and select.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Nicking or misplacing? I found using velcro to attach the remote to the DVD player worked quite well. Didn't stop some of my more careless colleagues leaving the remote on any convenient surface, but most people were quite good about putting it back because there was an obvious place for it to go.

(Side note: I'm envious of having projectors for labs. We share one projector among four labs (and we have no one such as yourself to keep things running, either).)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Missing - a couple have died, kids nick them to play with the laser pointers, etc.

We were an early adoptor of projectors, we've been gradally rolling them out to all of the labs since 2004-ish in an attempt to go paperless and "green", which would be more convincing if they didn't run at 300 watts and up. When the school was recently refurbished and all the rooms that didn't already have projectors / interactive whiteboards were fitted with them, we mostly kept the crappy old ones. Our new building has projectors that don't need remotes in every room - they're hard-wired to switches by the board - but they didn't fit them in the old rooms.