So a friend of mine recently picked up this receiver and had a few questions for me that I'm now gonna ask you. He has a cable box and blue ray player hooked up via hdmi and one hdmi out to his tv from the avr. He was asking if there was a setting to allow video to pass through without the avr on, because I guess doesn't now without it on. Also he was also asking if there was a way to have the TV speakers still work because I guess the avr doesn't pass the audio to the tv? And no this is not my avr lol I still have my old onkyo saving for a new possibly denon or Yamaha. Thanks.