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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced techie is indistinguishable from magic

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Re: Light sensors!

30 years ago on some of the early video recorders with ir remote control used to malfunction when the sun hit the ir receiver. The solution was to fit a grill to stop the sun swamping the ir sensor.

Something the TV designers had already figured out (they had a grill or a cowl) but I suspect the video designers had never worked on a TV.

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