Update: Well, after almost a month of screwing around with different settings I've come to the conclusion that there's definitely some kind of fault in my 970. If I wake it up on any analog input the audio is fine. If I wake it up on the DVD input with auto-polling ON the audio is fine. Essentially the 970 is waking up off the analog output of the DVD player then auto-switching to it's digital output, however it does cause a slight delay. Whenever I wake it up on the DVD input with auto-polling OFF (as it should be set) I have no audio and have to select another input and then go back to DVD for it to pick up the audio. I even tried swapping out the digital cable and even another DVD player but the 970 still doesn't pick up the digital audio when it first comes out of standby. Weird. Hopefully Outlaw can figure this out soon and come up with a software fix.