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Having bought this portable DVD player to keep my 3 year old son occupied on a recent road-trip, I hadn"t given much thought to what I would like to get out of it. I just wanted it to work. I was pleasantly surprised.

Not only does it work great as a portable DVD player, it works well as a standard DVD player. I have had it connected to my standard definition television as well as my LCD projector, and it has worked roughly the same as if I would have tried to connect a larger, typical DVD player.

I have had 2 incidents with it where I have not been able to un-pause it. That hasn"t happened lately though, and am not sure why it would have done that.

Lastly, the most common gripe... as with everything else in the world, I wish the battery would run longer between recharging. I get about 2 1/2 hours off of one charge. About the right time for a movie, but there is always the possibility of cutting the end of your movie off.

HDMI-CEC is a hardware-based protocol that allows compatible devices to communicate back and forth with your TV. Enabling it allows for advanced unified control from a single remote, automaticically turning on your TV, and more.

HDMI-CEC, short for HDMI Consumer Electronics Control, was first defined with the release of the original HDMI 1.0 standard and formalized for active use in 2005 with the release of HDMI 1.2a, an early update to the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard.

HDMI-CEC works with both basic device pairings (like a TV and a Blu-ray player) as well as more complex setups like multiple devices hooked to an HDMI receiver or chained together. Manufacturers must include support for HDMI-CEC as far as wiring for the standard goes, so even if the device in question doesn’t support HDMI-CEC as an adopted feature, it should still pass the HDMI-CEC command along to the next device.

HDMI-CEC allows devices connected to your TV through HDMI ports to communicate back and forth with your TV. HDMI-CEC makes it possible for you to control a Blu-ray player or streaming stick attached to your TV using your TV’s remote or vice versa so either remote can change the volume or make playback adjustments. It also makes it possible for your TV to automatically switch to the right HDMI port when you turn on a device such as your Xbox game console or when you place your Nintendo Switch into the dock.

HDMI-CEC can also turn devices on or off. Let’s say you have a Chromecast connected to your TV, but you’re not using the Chromecast right now. Instead, you’re watching TV or playing Xbox. With HDMI-CEC, you can start casting to your Chromecast from another device, and the Chromecast will send a signal to the TV, forcing the TV to switch to the Chromecast’s input.

You won’t have to fumble with the TV’s remote control and switch to the appropriate input on your own. And once you’re watching the video you sent to the Chromecast, you can adjust the volume, pause it, and skip back or ahead in the video (or to the last or next videos in the playlist) using your TV remote.

HDMI-CEC also has advantages with game consoles. For example, with modern game consoles like the PlayStation 5, as well as the Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X, you can press the button on the controller or the game console itself to both turn the console on and send a signal to turn the television on too. Or, if you switch the TV to the console’s input while the console is in sleep mode, it will understand you want to use it and automatically power on.

Devices can also label their inputs, so your Chromecast will automatically appear as “Chromecast” instead of just “HDMI 2.” Yes many TVs will let you manually label the ports in the menu, but there’s no need to bother with labeling when HDMI-CEC allows the device to tell the TV what it is.

The majority of televisions manufactured today support HDMI-CEC, as do the majority of devices you might attach to your TV, like media receivers, soundbars, Blu-ray players, streaming devices, game consoles, and more.

It’s pretty annoying, and they only do it because it pushes consumers toward purchasing items that appear to work together because of shared branding. For instance, if you’re shopping for a new TV and you see a Sony TV labeled as “Bravia Sync compatible” and a Blu-ray player also labeled as “Bravia Sync compatible,” you might be inclined to buy those two devices thinking they work together using some specialty Sony feature—when in reality that’s just Sony’s in-house name for HDMI-CEC.

You should find similar options in your TV, if it supports HDMI-CEC, usually under the general settings or within a submenu like Device Manager, Hardware Settings, or HDMI Settings.

So devices have HDMI-CEC enabled by default. For example, HDMI-CEC is automatically enabled on the Chromecast, so this will work right out of the box as long as your TV has HDMI-CEC enabled. You’ll find most streaming devices and boxes have HDMI-CEC enabled by default as it’s a big benefit for such devices to have nearly seamless integration with your TV. Soundbars are another device that almost always has HDMI-CEC enabled by default—HDMI-CEC is closely related to HDMI ARC, a common soundbar feature, so that makes sense.

No sense in troubleshooting a bug that has already been patched in a previous firmware update. Before fussing with the next steps, update all your devices to the most recent firmware.

Unplug your TV from the power source, let it sit for a few minutes, and then plug it back in without any HDMI devices attached. Then attach the devices one by one to rule out any issues with individual devices. You may find that your old soundbar is the hangup in your HDMI-CEC setup and when you remove it, everything else functions fine.

You don’t need HDMI cables plated with gold and lubricated with unicorn blood, but you do need physically sound cables that form a firm connection to each device. Here are some signs you have a faulty HDMI cable.

Second, the build quality on cheap HDMI switches isn’t always the highest and it might simply be an issue of a poor connection in the device. All HDMI-CEC takes place over a single dedicated pin/wire, so if there is any issue with that connection, there will be an issue with HDMI-CEC connectivity.

In general, no. You may find yourself frustrated if a particular device in your media center setup behaves erratically or in an unexpected way. For example, you might want to keep the devices attached to your TV on but turn the TV off to save electricity. If the devices respond to the HDMI-CEC power off command, you’d want to turn off HDMI-CEC so that you could toggle the power state of the TV without also toggling the power state of the devices attached to it.

In many setups, nothing would happen if you disabled HDMI-CEC except you would need to manually turn on each device (such as your TV, your speakers, and your Xbox) with the button on the device or using a remote. And you would, naturally, lose the One Remote to Rule Them All functionality that HDMI-CEC provides.

In some setups, however, disabling HDMI-CEC can create problems with audio delivery. Some TVs and soundbars are new enough to have HDMI ARC support but not new enough to have the more advanced HDMI eARC will fail to output and receive sound as expected if HDMI-CEC is turned off. This is especially true if the manufacturer has opted to use a single toggle for HDMI-CEC and HDMI ARC. Disabling the HDMI-CEC setting will immediately disrupt all audio devices that rely on ARC.

No, not all devices support HDMI-CEC. To comply with the specifications of the HDMI standard, manufacturers must include the physical layer of the HDMI-CEC system in both HDMI cables and HDMI connections. But the manufacturer is not required to implement the HDMI-CEC system at the software level.

If you wish to keep using a particular TV, display, or projector with your setup, however, you can work around the issue by plugging everything into a modern HDMI-CEC compatible media receiver or soundbar. While this will not allow you to use the TV remote to control everything, it will allow you to use the remote for the receiver to control everything else but the TV.

There is no requirement for a manufacturer to use all HDMI-CEC commands. In some cases, how a particular manufacturer uses a given command differs enough that it works incorrectly with hardware from another manufacturer. Typically the simpler the command (like adjusting the volume), the more reliably it works.

Nearly every modern HDMI switch supports HDMI-CEC passthrough. Switches that require manually changing the HDMI port with a mechanical button or a remote control, however, can throw a wrench in your setup. And even switches with “auto-switching” features sometimes don’t work properly with HDMI-CEC compatible devices that would otherwise work properly if plugged directly into your TV.

Earlier versions of the Xbox One platform don’t support HDMI-CEC. To use HDMI-CEC with your compatible TV, you need an Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, or Xbox Series X.