inventor of the TV remote control dead at 96

Once upon a time no TV in America had a remote.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-money-minute-20120522,0,279625...




I have a TV I use for a monitor but no antenna is hooked up to watch anything so I don't need a remote. I won't pay for cable and there is nothing local worth watching other than local news that I can catch on the radio driving. I work out of town a lot where I can see cable at the motel, last Friday night I caught the movie 'Brother Where Art Thou' in Corpus Christi with remote viewing.