I don't know what I did but when I plugged into some more components into my 970 the OSD on the t.v. went away. Now the osd only displays on the 970 front display. I checked the input setups and had the osd turned on with a 10 sec delay time but it still does not appear. Any info would be great.

Just a guess, but the OSD is only overlayed onto composite and s-video inputs - if you added component video sources, they will not get the OSD overlayed onto them.

gonk, I've been going back and forth between the Outlaw 970 and the Emotiva LMC-1 for about 2 weeks now. You say that OSD is only overlayed onto composite and s-video. Does that mean if I have 3 different sources that only have component video outputs running into the 970 and out to my plasma tv, I won't be able to use the OSD??? I seem to be a bit confused about the overlaying.

The 970 doesn't overlay data onto a component video input because the signal bandwidth is too great to be able to do so without degrading the picture quality. More expensive processors still suffer from this limitation, but work around it by blanking the screen (ignoring the input) and drawing the menu on that blank screen). The 970 does overlay menu data onto composite and s-video inputs, and that data goes along for the ride when transcoded to component for the component monitor output. This way, you can get to the 970's OSD menu simply by selecting an input that isn't configured to use a component video source (such as the front panel input) before pulling up the OSD menu. The LMC-1 behaves the same way, by the way.