Sony TV IR commands stopped working...

[Jerry — MacSolutions]

The TV is a Sony 27"  KV-27S15.

Nothing was changed and this suddenly happened during the middle of  
the night while my wife was up feeding our baby.  She changed channels  
and suddenly the TV would change the volume level.  I don't know about  
a power surge or brownout (I was asleep) but we've got a very decent  
grade power surge protector on the line as well as a noise filter.

I've tried several remote codes on the ReplayTV remote first before I  
grabbed the original Sony remote to try.  Changed to the battery on it  
as well and no luck.

Also, I've already unplugged the TV for about 15 minutes to try  
resetting it but still no response.

I've never heard of this issue before so I'm wondering if I just had a  
component failure?

What I really need is a NASA Engineer to hire... <grin>

Jp

On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Lomicka wrote:

> Okay, so it doesn't work from either remote?  That certainly narrows  
> it down to the TV itself.
>
> One more thing.  Did you recently add any new lights to the room?  
> Some CF bulbs emit optical radiation that can confuse an IR  
> receiver. My wife's sewing machine lamp is like that.  I notice it  
> because the tally lamp on my Xantech remote receiver lights up.  
> Sunlight can do that too if it hits the IR receiver directly.
>
> Can you tell us theTV model number?  Maybe we can look up the manual  
> on-line and find some setting in there that might have changed.
>
> We have one (older) video projector here at church that otherwise  
> appears to be completely functional, but it occasionally powers-up  
> unresponsive to the IR remote until it is power cycled with the  
> circuit breaker (it's 16 feet off the floor in the ceiling, so  
> "unplugging" is less practical than throwing the breaker.)  So, in  
> my experience, this sort of failure is not unheard of.
>
> 				- Jeff
>