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Originally Posted by GMB
What annoys me is that manufacturers of equipment do not seem to make much effort to make their battery compartments cope with the problem.
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I doubt most people would be prepared-to-pay-extra for such a feature just to satisfy the desperately-small minority of those to whom it would be a benefit.
"The remote-control doesn't work - the batteries have burst" being a good reason for most people to replace their five-year-old TV with a newer, higher-spec, more-energy-efficient model.