I setup my new 990 today and it had me cursing. I connected a DVD player using the component DVD in connections and optical digital 1 connection, and setup appropriately using the on-screen menu. I popped a DVD in, pressed "input" to cycle off of the tuner and onto "DVD" but it didn't work. After trying for a while I swapped the DVD to use video input 1, reconfigured via the on-screen menu, pressed "input", and it worked! Swapping back to the dedicated component DVD connections I realized that you need to use the remote control to select the DVD source - the "input" button on the front panel won't cycle through to the "DVD" input.

Is this by design or did I miss something?

--Tim

Hitting the "Input" button on the front panel the using the "up" and "down" arrows on the front panel ought to cycle through the inputs as you wish.


later,
simp

There is one bug that I know of with that approach - I think the 7.1 Direct input is currently left out of the cycle. I wasn't aware of the DVD input being left out, though, and I suspect the planned firmware update will fix the 7.1 Direct omission.

Thanks. Its working (as designed I guess...)

I think it would be more natural to have the "input" button cycle through the inputs rather than the up/down buttons just like the "tuner" button cycles through "AM" and "FM".

It works though.

--Tim

Glad to hear it's working, at least.

"I think it would be more natural to have the "input" button cycle through the inputs"

By using the up/down arrows, a user is able to access the desired input a little quicker than if it were a one-button toggle.

For example, if you were in Video 1, but wanted to toggle back to DVD, you simply press "input" and then the "up arrow".

With a one button toggle, you'd be forced to go through all of the other inputs before arriving at DVD.

Best,

Scott