According to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive for TeamViewer, a German company that makes remotecontrol and online meetings software, I am typical.
They also had problems with the digital tape recorder, which were an even more amazing remote fix, but these were more remotecontrol work-arounds to fix hardware issues rather than software patches.
Comcast ( CMCSA - news - people )--not to talk your ear off on all this stuff, but Comcast just came out with a software that works on the iPad that acts as your remotecontrol, acts as a preview device.
The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.