{"id":2289,"date":"2026-07-19T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/infrared-tech-is-decades-old-why-does-almost-every-tv-remote-use-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:30:00","slug":"infrared-tech-is-decades-old-why-does-almost-every-tv-remote-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/infrared-tech-is-decades-old-why-does-almost-every-tv-remote-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrared tech is decades old \u2013 why does almost every TV remote use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote’s evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn’t died out.<\/p>\n

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Please credit: OBA Blog<\/a> » Infrared tech is decades old \u2013 why does almost every TV remote use it?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote’s evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn’t died out. Please credit: OBA Blog » Infrared tech is decades old \u2013 why does almost every TV remote use it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}