The pause button on the DVD player remote, for example, you press to pause the movie and then you can press the play button to un-pause it. This makes sense to me because you want to play the movie. I see the logic and agree with it under many circumstances, but the mute - volume control is not one of them. Pressing increase/decrease volume to un-mute the sound is like pressing fast forward to un-pause the video. That's pushing it, but you get my meaning, I hope.