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Maybe Tim's dog has had one of those ID chips inserted under it's skin which interferes with the IR receptor on the TV.
The pet chips don't use IR, they use radio frequency. And they don't broadcast, having no power source. Pet RFID chips are passive - they don't do anything until a scanner is in close enough proximity to them to induce a current. They don't "broacast" until powered by the scanner and then only over very short distances, really just enough to be picked up by the scanner itself.
Yeah, early TV remotes used RF and were prone to interference from things like police and truck radios. (The first commercial TV remotes were actually sonic. They worked mechanically by a hammer striking a kind of "tuning fork" bar and emitting an ultrasonic pulse when you pressed a button. There was one bar for each of the four or five functions the remote could handle. I've seen TVs that used those remotes turn off or change channels because someone in the room whistled, tapped a crystal glass with a fingernail or dropped a metal tray on the floor. So I could see a dog playing all sorts of havoc with one of those.
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Regards,
Joe
The pet chips don't use IR, they use radio frequency. And they don't broadcast, having no power source. Pet RFID chips are passive - they don't do anything until a scanner is in close enough proximity to them to induce a current. They don't "broacast" until powered by the scanner and then only over very short distances, really just enough to be picked up by the scanner itself.
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When I was a kid, we would occasionally experience the tv turning off or on and changing channels. I'm guessing it was cb radio interference causing it.
Yeah, early TV remotes used RF and were prone to interference from things like police and truck radios. (The first commercial TV remotes were actually sonic. They worked mechanically by a hammer striking a kind of "tuning fork" bar and emitting an ultrasonic pulse when you pressed a button. There was one bar for each of the four or five functions the remote could handle. I've seen TVs that used those remotes turn off or change channels because someone in the room whistled, tapped a crystal glass with a fingernail or dropped a metal tray on the floor. So I could see a dog playing all sorts of havoc with one of those.
)Regards,
Joe
