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    Consumer IR and Xbox 360

    Discussion in 'HP' started by CiD, Jan 4, 2007.

  1. CiD

    CiD Notebook Guru

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    Hello! I dont know if this was posted, but I bought a Compaq v3020us for my brother in this christmas. It does have the consumer IR that it really dont work as a regular IR and the notebook didnt include the original remote from HP, so the other day I wante to see a movie in the Xbox 360 and I have the regular controller of the Xbox, and my brother was almost near the TV and I was controlling the Notebook! :p

    My brother said "WTF" and then we realized that this controller also worked for the Compaq notebook.

    Hehe I just wanted to share and let you know that may be another controller could work for the Notebook, or at least that the Xbox Controller worked just fine ;)

    Thank you and sorry for my english! :D
     
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  2. hollownail

    hollownail Individual 11

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    Thats interesting.

    **edit*

    Wait, are you sayign you were using a regular xbox controller to control the PC?

    **edit again**

    The 360 controllers do not use IR. They use UHF. I believe the only thing the IR sensor on the xbox is for is for the DVD remote.
     
    hollownail, Jan 4, 2007
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  3. richard13

    richard13 Notebook Geek

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    I think he must be referring to the XBOX 360 Universal Remote, which does affect my HP DV2000T in a negative way. What I mean is that the remote will turn on my notebook when I am trying to use my XBOX. They are primarily in two different rooms now so it's not a big deal but it was annoying at first.
     
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  4. CiD

    CiD Notebook Guru

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    Oh yes sorry, I was refering to the Univeral Remote....lol I didnt know how to name it correctly in english hehe.

    Yeah, sometimes its anoying but well...what a coincidende hehe
     
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  5. JM

    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    That's rather interesting.

    I don't think any of my remotes around the house affect my dv2000's IR port, or my Asus P5W remote receiver.

    Odd how some remotes do it and other's don't.

    :p
     
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    kk4uga Notebook Guru

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  7. hollownail

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    Ah! okay. Interesting. I'm probably not going to buy the remote as it's not needed to play dvds (wasn't really for the xbox either). But... I dunno. It does have a lot of buttons. And I like things with buttons.

    I wonder if it would interface with my mac.
     
    hollownail, Jan 5, 2007
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