Why do people press remote control buttons harder of they know the battery is out?

Answer 1

When you push a remote control button, it pushes a conductor down onto a pair of contacts to make the operation occur. Over time, these contacts can become dirty. Pushing down harder on the button may cause a fleck of dirt to flatten out, resulting in contact being made.

Also, if the batteries are going low, pressing down normally might cause a certain amount of contact area, while pressing harder might result in more contact area. This increase in contact area might be enough to allow the function to occur, where normal pressing didn't quite do the job.

Another thing I do when the batteries seem low is take off the battery cover, remove the batteries, and reseat them. Sometimes a bit of dirt or corrosion gets on the battery terminals and doesn't let all of the battery power get to the remote control circuits. More times than not, this corrects a non-working remote problem instead of getting new batteries.

Answer 2

A better question is why would you ask such a, silly, stupid, juvenile question as this in the TV ELECTRONICS forum, where the discussion is centered around technical TV operational and electronics problems. Please go somewhere else where the participants are as bored as you are, and appreciate the inane.