Long shot here, but is the infra-red port on Inspirons 2-way or send only,
and if it is capable of receiving data, is there any software that can be
configured to receive signals from normal TV/VCR remote controls so that
these remotes can be used to control DVD movie playback?
This seems like an easy technological challenge, but somehow I don't think
all the right people have gotten together to create the easy pieces of the
puzzle. Certainly the hardware designers of these notebooks could have made
the IR port able to receive as well as send. As long as it can receive, it
would be a simple matter to right software that you can instruct "now I'm
going to press the play button so make a note that this IR signal means
play", etc. And this functionality could either be built into the DVD movie
players or these players could be programmed to respond to interapplication
messages (whatever the analog in the windows world is to Unix inter process
signals) and the program responding to the remote could be separate.
Are any of these pieces done? All of them? I can't find very much info on the
IR port in the stuff from Dell or the Windows on-line help.
-Karl
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