Philips DVP 642 remote not doing what it should

[ar7499]

I love this player. It handles all the videos I put in there.

I have one complaint. To fast forward, you have to use the right arrow, and to rewind you have to use the left arrow. I figured this out after almost throwing the remote across the room because you 'could not' fast forward.....

It has the same problem when being controlled by my universal remote using standard philips codes. It looks like there is some weird key mapping issue. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this. Maybe a firmware update?

Thanks for any help.

[Krispy Kritter]

That is the way they all work, yours isn't any different.

[ar7499]

oh well, thanks for the answer


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[kydar]

Mine works the same way. I'm curious as to why you are perturbed about this; i.e., which keys would you map to FF/REW if you could? I'm talking about the Philips remote, which only has the arrows and Next/Previous track keys, as opposed to a universal remote which might have dedicated FF/REW keys.

[otpw1]

Universal remotes are the way to go!