I'm with edmund. You can't turn a Yamaha on and off, but you can adjust its volume. Since most of my watching is DirecTV, I just turn the TV and DirecTV receiver on and off. I have a remote programmed to work all of this with DVD too, but my Yamaha receiver has been on now for about two years.
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