A thing that I did was put a macro on the power button to power up/power down my tv and receiver and set the system to watch tv as a starting/ending point for using my system. I have 1L as a macro to turn on dvd and set the receiver and tv for dvd mode. 2L does the same for vcr. I have used SETUP-POWER to access the onn/off button in all devices so that I can always turn an individual component on or off that way.