Right. These days a lot of people have a cable box or a fancy receiver feeding their TV and then end up with a mess of remotes to manage this. Connecting a moni

Right. These days a lot of people have a cable box or a fancy receiver feeding their TV and then end up with a mess of remotes to manage this. Connecting a monitor to the cable box or receiver and having a single remote would actually be much cleaner. As you say, if the cable box shuts down the HDMI port when off the monitor should turn itself on and off nicely.