A dear friend who is a female engineer and I got into a discussion concerning the number of buttons needed to be pushed to watch a movie on our home theaters.

I did not want to include turning on my amp as a step because well no amp, tv or cell phone or car or oven etc... works without at least turning it on.

She stated no that is a step, as if she magically wanted the equipment to automatically turn on once you get close to it.

So is this a new low for the Wife Acceptance Factor? they think it is a pain to even turn a piece of equipment on?

and they actually have a basic HT but I do understand the frustration if you have to hit 10 buttons just to watch movie

any comments appreciated
by the way I have to turn on the TV, turn on my 2 ch amp, my 5 ch amp, my processor and my bluray but then it is only hit play on the bluray (after loading a disk as that is a step) and hit another button to get my 5.1analog out as the default is digital and I prefer the analog outputs