Gonk, powering off my cable box is not an option. I let that thing running all the time, or else I'll have to put up with its issues.

But look at this scenario:

With one macro, Power on TV, Power on 1070 on Video2, cablebox already running and everything starts just fine.

Then, with second macro, power on Oppo and switch 1070 to DVD and everything works OK.

Switch Outlaw back to TV and, bang, the vertically compressed and horizontally expanded TV image shows up! Not always, only once in a while, like the no audio bug...

In this case all componentes are up and running, and the TV was rendering the signal from the cable box just fine before I switched to Oppo and then back to TV.

True, when cabling the TV directly from the HDMI sources, any source input switch was taking longer and the TV was displaying the "looking for signal" message, which doesn't show up when the back and forth switching happens via Outlaw.

Not sure what to do next...

There is another case I've just ran into. The signal from Oppo just came up with a color missing. Powered 1070 off and on cured it.

1070 simply seems to be incapable of reliably doing anything that involves software. Every time I depress a button on my remote that involves the receiver I wonder "would this work now?".

Is this what it means to be an "outlaw"?