If your receiver fires up every morning because somebody switched the TV on to check the weather, stop digging through the receiver menus first. Most of that behaviour is being sent by the TV.
CEC gets a different marketing name on every brand, Bravia Sync, Anynet+, Simplink, but the mechanic...
A reference to ATVRemote1,5 turned up in the macOS 26.7 release candidate, spotted by MacRumors, and it lines up with what Gurman had already described as part of Apple's 2026 roadmap. That's the whole factual content, to be clear - an identifier in shipping code. No description of what changes...
Cord Cutters ran a piece recommending three Roku remote accessories and reading it mostly made me notice how much of this category exists to patch things the TV standard already covers. The three picks are an EZclicker oversized remote for Roku TVs, the Sideclick clip-on that bolts extra buttons...