I’ve seen people worried that having the screen on during downloads will cause burn in. I thought it would be a good idea for them to implement a screen saver when you’re in the Downloads tab. The screen saver would be completely black, except for text that says “Downloading (Progress)” That way the screen would be essentially off, and the user doesn’t have to wake the screen to see how it’s going. The text would also be moving like the DVD logo to move the pixels around.
plug the deck in and tell it to blank the screen after 1 minute but never sleep when on power. you might have to be in desktop mode as well, but this is what I did when I was setting it up and had a bunch of downloads queued.