I wasn't admonishing you, just curious why you would post that here. You
might get a wider response from rec.antique.radio+phono. Despite that
it's name is "antique", they cover a broad range of other electronic
issues.

BTW, you don't have to subscribe to a group to read and post there.

FWIW, I'm fairly sure my answer is correct.

On Sat 26 Jan 2008 12:48:47p, james told us...

> <Snip previous>
>
> I'm posting it here because this is one of my subscribed groups. I
> didn't know what the thing was so I figured that one way or the other
> someone in any or the other would know what the thing was. and that I am
> a member of this group and mostly just look, so would sombody else. You
> for instance.
>
>> I'm not sure why you're posting it in rec.food.baking... But I believe
>> it is used in conjunction with infrared remote control in either with
>> either audio or video equipment.
>>
>> I had a similar device that was plugged into a special jack on the back
>> of my TV. The other end was placed in from of the infrared received on
>> the front of my VCR. Using this I could automatically schedule
>> recordings from the TV Guide signal that was picked up by my TV. The
>> scheduing was done from the TV and transmitted to the VCR.

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