"Lord Garth" wrote in message
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The bad part is when there are menus that can't be selected by the front
panel!

Similar: We have a TV that can only be switched from the regular TV tuner to
the composite video input from a button on the remote. @#$@#%

I've seen TVs that create a virtual "channel 0" for composite input. Even
with a button to directly jump to composite input on the remote, that would
have been a good way to avoid the problem in case the remote was lost.