Now that I know how Video Select works, I'm not convinced that it is better, but it is different anyway.

Let's say you wanted a source like CasaTunes to play with the CBL/SAT source. You would plug CasaTunes into the CBL/SAT analog, then instead of playing HDMI audio from the CBL/SAT source, you can use the code "Input Mode Analog" to select audio from only the analog source. When you want to go back to normal you would use the code "Input Mode HDMI" or "Input Mode Auto" which would restore the normal audio from the CBL/SAT source.