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Four remotes on one table

Nobody sets out to own four remotes. They arrive one at a time, each one attached to a purchase that made sense on its own, and by the time there are four the table is a filing system nobody designed.

This page counts them. Not the remotes in your house, which no listing can know about, but the remotes these listings state, which is the only number anybody here can honestly produce.

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What the remotes already in the boxes and a replacement remote each claim, job by job

  • 1The picture not covered: nothing selected states this job
  • 2The apps not covered: nothing selected states this job
  • 3The sound not covered: nothing selected states this job
  • 4The input covered twice: The remotes already in the boxes; A replacement remote
  • 5The support not covered: nothing selected states this job

One job is claimed more than once: the input.

Already doing this job

The remotes already in the boxes

The listing states: a Voice Remote with AlexaINSIGNIA 40" Class F40 Series LED Full HD Smart Fire TV

Televisions, players and sound bars in this catalog all name a remote as part of what arrives. Nobody chooses those remotes; they simply appear, one per box.

They are also the remotes most likely to be lost, because there are the most of them and none of them is the one anybody meant to keep.

What might be added

A replacement remote

The listing states: compatible with Roku TV models only and not with Roku playersRoku TV Remote Control (Official Manufacturer Product)

A replacement remote is a legitimate purchase for a genuinely lost original, and this catalog carries a category of them.

It is also the easiest thing on this site to buy by mistake, because the compatibility ranges are long, the limits are printed in smaller type, and the device it is meant for is usually in another room.

Replacement Remotes

What ends up doubled

This is a second one

Every box in this catalog that states a remote has already put one on the table. A replacement is a second one unless the first is genuinely gone.

  • 14

    listings state a remote inside their own box.

  • 10

    remotes are sold here on their own.

  • 24

    remote-shaped things in a catalog of 52 listings.

Why people end up with both

Because a missing remote is an emergency and a drawer is not a search engine. The original is somewhere. It is under a cushion, or in a bag, or it went out with a delivery box in March. Ordering another one takes a minute and finding the first one takes an afternoon, so the second one gets ordered, and then in June the first one turns up.

What the listings never say

A replacement remote listing states a compatibility range and, if the seller is being useful, a limit. What it cannot state is whether the device in your room is inside that range. Every range on this site is quoted as the seller wrote it, and none of them is confirmed here.

What the boxes are supposed to contain

Sources

Product facts on this page come from the listing text quoted here, in the seller own words. Statements about published standards come from the bodies linked above and from nowhere else.