Gonk you are the best. Both problems are easily solved and I love my new 970. I just upgraded to HD cable today also and that also goes great with the 970. After all of the these new upgrades I need to take a day this weekend and redo all of my cables what a mess they are right now So far I have not had any experience with the no audio problem or long delays with finding the digital signal. I tool your advice from an earlier post about turning off the auto polling feature right away. What exactly does this feature do anyway?