Ok. That makes sense, watch what you want to record. I'll be honest, I didn't want to go through the headache of trying to figure that out when I set my HT up. Since my sat has dual outs, I ran one to the 1050 and the other direct to the VCR. The other reason I did this was because I didn't know if the 1050 needed to be on if I had set my timer to record something. This way, completely out of the loop. I realize it would have been simple enough to just try it and see what happened, or even (gasp!) read the manual, but I was in too much of a hurry to set it up and start making noise! Maybe I'll play around with it next time I have the HEAVY entertainment center pulled away from the wall.

Glad you got it figured out. Thanks for sharing the solution. Good lesson for us all!