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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1262059" data-attributes="member: 18896">The Pulse-Eight CEC units put me back $50.35 (tax+shipping) via Amazon, or are you talking about buying extra-cables/etc?If CEC works then you could technically send instructions such as what input channel the TV needs to use via CEC protocol though.But a cheap IR-blaster or alike sounds like a more reliable alternative, and have this in my Amazon cart as a backup -- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FK2SDOC/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FK2SDOC/</a>Talking to Marantz engineer on one of my support calls I was told that CEC is a nightmare for them that they prefer to do without, and that all the manufactures kind of did their own way and only support their own brands `ecosphere` where the standard was intended to be universal. My problem back then was that PS4Pro CEC was interfering with Roku CEC in combination with LG CEC and Marantz receiver was passing everything through correct. With all four systems configured to use CEC; then if I turned on the Roku, the Marantz would turn on, which would signal the TV to turn on, but then the LG TV would signal the PS4Pro to turn on, and then even though I wanted to stream on Roku I was presented with PS4Pro screen instead. Hitting the home button on Roku again overruled the CEC and changed input back to Roku, but then I had to deal with an awoken PS4Pro that I did not care for.In the end I disabled CEC on the PS4Pro, as Sony's implementation was the most broken, but my hope was to talk Marantz into adding extra options to their firmware that would allow me to configure the CEC pathways, so that LG to PS4Pro could be blocked, but not the other way around. That is when I was shared the horror they go through to make it work the way it does already.</blockquote>

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