I've been living with occasional audio dropouts from OTA HD broadcasts for a long time. I lived with it partly because it was a very early generation tuner (first Sony HD TV)and just thought it was the best it could do.

Now I have a new TV and DVR and they both still get audio drop outs. But if I use the internal speakers on the TV it's fine, no dropouts. This was true on the old TV as well (internal speakers works).

So I thought it must be something to do with optical input on the Meridian. But I've had 3 meridians 561, 568 and 861 and they all had the problem. I've tried 5 different cables. Short ones and long ones.

I even tried running optical into my DVDO and outputing over coax. Still have the problem.

I can now get the local broadcasts over cable (QAM Tuner) and still have drop outs.

What's going on?

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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