That's a rather bizarre situation - I've been running the DVI signal from my Oppo through the 990 for several months now and have used it quite a bit without running into this. I've got a small IR distribution set up, but the 990 gets its signal from an IR emitter mounted in front of the sensor window so it is acting just the same as a regular "remote straight to device" arrangement would. Since it's only happening when the Oppo is on, it must relate somehow to having a signal coming to the 990's DVI input.

If you haven't done so already, let Outlaw know about this one (either at 866-688-5292 or here ). The 990/Oppo combination has been steadily more and more common, and I'm sure they'd be interested to hear about your situation.