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Yes, I hate the fact that when I turn on my TV, it takes a full 5-6 seconds for it to respond to the remote. This can be very bad if the volume was up high, and you turn on the TV late at night and are greeted with blaring sound an no-way to turn it down until you have already woken half the house.

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When I bought my car I noticed a "Start Up Volume" feature. I could be blaring the stereo on my way home, turn off the truck, then come back out in the morning to go to work. I wouldn't be deafened by the sudden jump in volume. It always starts at an adjustable level for that input source.

I don't understand why everything else that has a speaker doesn't have this feature.

The most outrageous thing was the "Sources" menu (where you switch from HDMI input to TV), which took 1-2 minutes to load (whole going through several different "Loading..." screens). So I always had to remember to put the TV back into TV mode in the evening (after using it as a PC screen to watch internet videos).

Or needing to keep that one TV remote around because the Source or Exit button on the universal remote won't let you exit the "Sources" screen. But it'll control every single other function. Hate that!

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