Yes, but the higher voltage drop of an LED may cause problems with some meters - in the remote it's already connected to a suitable supply, and you can test it in circuit on a volts range - to be sure with a continuity test you would need to remove it from the board.
The other advantage of testing it with a voltmeter is that you are testing it under load, it may pass a continuity test, but fail under load - which is usually about 1A pulses!.
As a TV service engineer I see a lot of duff remotes, I don't recall ever testing an IR LED on an ohms range.
thanx for telling this Nigel. ive been into a bit of problem due to an LED and i was checking it on the ohms range. and it just kept telling me that the resistance is out-of-range. the voltmeter method is good. ill note this and whenever i get into testing an LED ill use this method.
should i do this with normal diodes too?? i mean they have a low voltage drop so i dont think there would be a problem with measuring it on the ohms range. altho i have a doubt that the current drain will be alot. am i right? because i dont want to flat my multimeter battery just because of checking a diode :lol: