Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but, I have an S-video from the monitor out to the TV. Then I press the "stereo" button on the remote to toggle between "stereo", "bypass", "upsample", and "5 channel stereo". I set it to "bypass", and on the front panel, it shows "CD" and "OPT1" and "digital". Now, if I hit the "menu" button on the remote, the OSD shows up just fine. In fact, the CD players setup OSD can also be shown (if I had switched from DVD to CD so that the last active video input was from the player, e.g., if I had had it on TV then switched to CD, the TV video would still be on the screen). So I go to the system config menu and toggle between Theater comp on and off and hear the effect.

That reminds me of another peculiarity. I have the default for CD input now set to bypass. If I switch from another input to CD, it should be in bypass, right. And if I hit the "stereo" button, the front panel shows "bypass". If I hit that button any time after that it goes to the next mode, which is "upsample". That gets me wondering if it's actually defaulting to the setting before "bypass" which is "stereo". In other words, does the button display the current mode the first time you hit it in any input, and only thereafter switch to the next mode, or does it always switch to the next mode. There's no way to confirm which mode it is in, unless perhaps going to the config input menu section and seeing what's set there at any particular time.

I hope these questions are not ridiculous, but the manual doesn't really address these details.

Mark