Amazon also fluctuates its pricing. Today, it is $149. Quick. hehehe
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3. It's autosleep triggers the AVR to turn off which in turn turns the TV off, even if Im using the TV with other sources. I still have to figure out where in the chain to disable this HDMI power control ARC thing.
4. If mag brown out and power is restored, shield automatically turns ON, then turns ON the AVR then the TV.
very good pricing for USD149. is this without the dpad controller, right? I think it's ok not to get the dpad if your not into gaming. at least NVidia gave its customers a choice.
for your negative findings, it's the CEC control that's the culprit-- not the ARC. turn it off on all -- Shield, TV & AVR. then they will need to be separately turned on/off.
I'm not at home right now so I can't confirm how's my exact set up. this what happens on my end:
- I turn on individual switches in this order: TV, AVR then Shield -- these are power switches only of our surge suppressor
- TV is on stand by, AVR on stand by and Shield will turn on (2017 model doesn't have a power switch on its unit)
- once Shield starts to operate/boot up, it will turn on the TV automatically. this take around 3seconds. then the TV will detect a signal from the AVR so it'll automatically be set to display the Shield's signal from Android boot-up logo until the homescreen
- my AVR will still remain on stand by -- btw, I have set my AVR on HDMI stand-by mode and I chose the HDMI port where Shield is connected (Stream Box HDMI 4, I think)
- by this time, I can proceed to use the Shield (play games, watch movie using the TV's internal speaker)
- I turn on the AVR manually only when I want surround sound or when watching HD-audio movies (which AVR is a must!)
after watching and when turning them off, I turn-off or put Shield to Sleep first. the AVR remains on and TV remains on. Next to manually turn off is the TV then AVR also turns off at the same time. Then I switch off all of the 3 on the surge suppressor.