I powered it on again this morning, just to test it real quick before I left for work.

I deliberately powered the Sat Tuner on first, so that there was an audio stream being sent to the 970 during it's power up.

As predicted, it went through the welcome message, but came to no audio, and a seemingly locked volume. Changing inputs did nothing, and I could not scroll through audio modes via the remote. (it ignored those commands)

I had to power it off (used the remote) and then power it back on.

And, as usual, all was well after that... =\

:rolleyes:

There's about 14 days left in my 30 day window...

(the fact that I'm conscious of that and actually counting them down does not bode well for this unit...)

As for emailing, Gonk. I'd be happy to. But I want to have something substantial to email them. A rather nondescript email of, 'I powered it on and there was no audio' isn't going to help much. Having been a tech before, I know they need criteria to narrow the search. Something more like, 'when some audio stream is being fed to the unit, while cold, the unit tends to get confused during power up.' Or something like that. (I'm close to that point, so we'll see what they have to say after I do a little troubleshooting tonight. Over the earlier part of the weekend, I always turned the 970 on FIRST, waited until the welcome message was gone before powering on any other devices, and I had zero issues...


E.