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CEC is an attempt to integrate equipment from different brands, but I find it's unreliable and can be downright annoying, so I turn it all off by default. For example, it can be used so when the BluRay player is turned on, the receiver automatically switches to its input and the TV switches to...

I'm still confused. When you watch broadcast TV, you need to use the TV's remote to select channels. When you want to watch something that goes through the receiver, such as discs or streaming, you need to select the corresponding input on the receiver and the hdmi input on the TV. That's just...

I'm a little confused. The traditional way to connect things is to connect them all to the receiver, then a single hdmi from the receiver to the TV. When you watch broadcast television, the TV is the video source and audio is passed back to the receiver through the optical cable. For...

OK. I got rid of cable myself almost 20 years ago, so I use the internal tuners and an optical cable. Even though my equipment has all been upgraded over the last 2-3 years, I still go that way because universal integrations like ARC tend to be so problematic. If the CD and Blu-Ray players...

Is the TV ever the source of what you watch? Such as it's internal tuner? If not, you don't need the optical connection. If it is, then yeah, use an optical connection. You shouldn't ever need to get video back to the receiver from the TV, so that should be a non-issue. Normally your Roku...