Not a bad idea, covering the eye, ill try it. I think ive had my fill of cec, arc too for that matter, worked fine on my old panasonic plasma but never got it working on this samsung. Never got the roku working either. When I first bought this TV, about a year ago, I simply swapped it out with the Panasonic, attached the cables and nothing worked. Couldnt even just watch TV. I researched and shopped for months, waited for it to go on sale, paid alomost $3000 for the thing, had to replace and move the wall bracket to accomodate the bigger size and it didn't work. Aftr several hours of frustration I called samsung support. They remoted into the TV and it took them a couple of hours to get everyhing working. Lord knows how it could be so complicated. Maybe it was just something about this particular unit.