Originally posted by Josuah:
Personally, I want the volume buttons to un-mute. That's a good way for things to work when you have no way of telling if you are on mute, or your volume is at zero. Otherwise, you would have to hit mute, try to raise the volume a bunch, then if that didn't work, hit mute again and try to raise the volume a bunch.
How about if the remotes came with a mute buttom that lit up and/or was depressed when on? Maybe including a music symbol with a line through it on screen, given that the OSD would be available through all inputs (see my first post). I am assuming you can't see the blinking amber lite on the pre/pro as in the case of the 950.
In addition another choice you don't have is being able to not change the volume to un-mute the system. You may think un-muting through the volume key is saving a key press by not having to hit the mute button again. But you actually need to raise or lower the volume 1 dB and then hit the volume adjustment again to bring it back to the level you had it before, thus requiring you to hit the key pad twice to un-mute instead of once for the un-mute button.
I find it interesting to try and solve this issue in a way that would work for everyone. There are options that could be missed by a single person and this discussion has brought some of them to light. I hope the people that could change this are reading and use this information to make their products better.