Hi. Melodious one here!!

I don't know about any light beams. The only beams I know about are the beams in Star Trek when Captain Kirk said "Beam me up 'Scotty"

Any other beams, well I don't know NOTHING about beams and light!!!!

However, I have made progress. Now, when I want to watch on the left and record on the right, not only do I use the cardboard thing which fits over everything, but I have an aluminum cookie sheet that I prop up against it and THEN I PLACE A PILLOW IN FRONT OF THE ALUMINUM COOKIE SHEET.

Nothing is beaming anywhere.

lol lol lol lol

Melody

lololol.... the remote emits a 'beam' of light, that is what i am talking about....
I am wondering if it was ricocheting off of some other surface and hitting the spot on the front of the VCR...and since you blocked a LARGER area, it can no longer do that????? whatever works!

Oh heck, I know the remote emits a beam of light, but is there a way to see if this beam is bouncing off of anything? I really don't think I can ever find this out.

but today I did something cool. Since I watch tv on the LEFT thing, I was laying on the bed and because my bed is somewhat higher than my tv, vcr, etc, I found that when I aimed the vcr remote at the vcr to fast forward, well, I had to sit up to get this done.

I immediately had an AHA moment and said "Oh, I have to raise the vcr and tv up HIGHER.

So what was I to do? I had to find something big, flat and sturdy to place the vcr and tv on. My tv sits on my vcr and the cable box sits on the tv.

Been this way for 20 years. No problems.

So today I went up in my closet, found an old flatbed scanner that I no longer use, IT IS THICK. I said PERFECT.

I carefully moved the cable box, tv and vcr around, put the flatbed scanner on top of the tv stand, then I placed everything ON TOP of the flatbed scanner.

VOILA!!!! Higher tv and vcr up in the air and now I can lay there, aim my remote and no problems.

They should have named a tv show after me.

Melody Maguyver!!!!!

lol

three to four layers of hospital tape over sensor area works on my electronics. keeps the signal from being received by your machine.

Oh, Now I'm excited.

What the heck is hospital tape??

lol

Melody