This has been a problem since channel changing evolved from the knobs. The cordless telephone was invented in the 60s and put into the consumers households in the 80s. For at least the last twenty years the cordless phone has had a button on it's base that, when pushed, makes your cordless phone beep loudly when buried in the couch, allowing you to find it quickly without making it look like your house has just been robbed.
Why the fuck hasn't this technology been put into TV remotes?
I understand that cordless phones are already operating on a specific frequency, which is why it's easy to send the phone a signal letting it know to start beeping. With todays technology, why hasn't this been adapted to TV remotes? This doesn't neccessarily mean that TV manufacturers should put in hardware to have their TV sets and remotes stay connected on a 2.4GHz frequency at a times. It just means that there should be a way to walk up to your TV, push a button, and then find the remote. You know, they do make a form of Bluetooth that operates at extremely low power and has a long range. How about that huh?
I know there are products out there that let you glue a small thing to your remote (or whatever else) to let you find it by pressing a stationary button. But I want it built in. I don't want to have to go out of my way to set this up, this shit should have been built into TVs years ago.
If Samsung announced that in all their upcoming TVs, they would be adding this feature, I would immediately want to buy a Samsung TV the next time I was shopping for one. Huge selling advantage, at a minimal cost. Rant over.