Prologue: The Curse of the Coffee Table
The deepest lore of the Grundig 8-in-1 was the function. This was a hidden feature, discovered not through the manual but through whispered forum posts on early internet bulletin boards (CompuServe, AOL).
By the early 2000s, the Grundig 8-in-1 began to fade. The rise of all-in-one home theater systems and, later, HDMI-CEC (where devices talk to each other via the HDMI cable) made the universal remote less essential. Grundig itself struggled, selling its consumer electronics division to Turkish company Beko in 2004.
Prologue: The Curse of the Coffee Table
The deepest lore of the Grundig 8-in-1 was the function. This was a hidden feature, discovered not through the manual but through whispered forum posts on early internet bulletin boards (CompuServe, AOL).
By the early 2000s, the Grundig 8-in-1 began to fade. The rise of all-in-one home theater systems and, later, HDMI-CEC (where devices talk to each other via the HDMI cable) made the universal remote less essential. Grundig itself struggled, selling its consumer electronics division to Turkish company Beko in 2004.
