Thanks guys for the advice. Fooling around with the new TV I realized that the TV remote will operate components connected to the TV and auto switch inputs when the component is activated. My wife likes the TV remote, it works like a wii. Tomorrow Im going to take a bluray player from another room no one is using and hook it directly to the TV, bypassing the AVR. All she really wants to do is watch her Christmas movies, she dosent care about surround sound. Should make her happy and save me $300 at the same time.
