Bingo. There's a very difficult balance to maintain. Provide enough controls that the techy crowd can do what they want to with it, but not so much that the more average user can't get it working without major frustrations. The 990's solution really is a good balance: have component inputs assigned by default to a specific input, and have the coaxial/optical inputs totally independent. You could potentially take it one step farther and have the coax/optical, component video, and HDMI inputs all just numbered and pre-assign some conveniently.