Hi all,
My German TH-42PZ70E has discrete on/off codes.
Pressing the remote's button starts the display's green LED blinking on release of the button.
Then the screen starts through for 10 secs and won't accept a following command until it's fully on, defaulting to an ugly bright analog CATV snow (I use a set top box through hdmi).
Then I have to press a second button selecting AV/hdmi.
Seems the display ignores every Pronto macro command after ON.
Anyone?
Barend

I'm guessing the TV won't ignore macro commands if add about a ten second delay after the ON command.

Put a time delay between the ON and the input command. Start with eight seconds. Try different time values until you get one long enough that always works.

I like to make input selection macros that turn on the TV, too, so I don't have to make separate power buttons. These work very nicely unless it takes a bunch of time for the display turn-on process. I've seen twenty second waits with projectors.

Let's say eight seconds works. If every input selection macro also goes through a TV turn-on, each macro will be around ten seconds. That's a very long time to wait for an input selection. I did it once and it was intolerably long. With your TV, I'd give up on making input selection macros with TV ON in them and make a separate System On button like this:

System On:
TV Power On
Screen changes to a screen with the message: waiting for TV to start up
Eight second delay (whatever time it really takes)
Screen changes to screen with input selections

Hey, if you turn on the TV and then turn on the cable box, does that make the TV switch to the HDMI input? I don't think it will, but I'd try it.

Many TVs will let you program out those inputs that you don't use. Some day they will realize that many of us don't use the TV Tuner and will let us program that out, as well. The worst is when you turn on the TV and it goes to snow at 50% volume!