Thanks tweeterguy.
Unfortunetely I am up all night a lot, and at odd hours watching TV.
So , for me, it's just easier to leave the cable box on all of the time.
Unless TimeWarner turns it off, whom I scream at until I get it back on.
But I learned the toggle ON/OFF from the cable box remote onto a "System power page"(where I have a list of all ON/OFF buttons for all devices).
So when I find the box to be off, I just go into the system power page to turn it back on, since it's too hard to get up and go to box and press the power button.
Yes, I am lazy too.:)
I also leave my Sony DVD mega changer on at all times, since if someone selects a CD/DVD from the CD/DVD menu I have on the remote, the first command sent to the DVD player is a stop command, which if the unit is off, and just been powered on, can cause the DVD player to error. Yes, I could add a delay, but my CD/DVD slection macros have enough delays that it almost takes 20-30 seconds, as is, for a selected DVD/CD to load after being selected, that an initial power on delay would be too much.
But everything else has descrete ON/OFFs, which I use for each activity button, depending on what is wanted.
My listen activities turn off TV, since you are "listening", not "watching" as I tell me wife, whom likes to watch the Music channels, which I have programed on the remote to select on cable box and play through the AVR, but keep/turn TV off for.
I have to replace my Toshiba DLP $300 light bulb at least once/year as it is, so by having the "listen" activities keep/turn the unneeded TV off for, I hopefully save a bit.
I throughly "idiot" tested my remote setup for possible wife factors to make sure nothing can error easily, and found this way to work best.
Last edited by tonyn41
on April 26, 2007 04:10.