Is this black out at the very beginning of the selection (start of a CD, or when you first enter a menu or other section of a DVD)? When I went from a pro-logic Yamaha receiver to a 1050, I noticed that the audio in some DVD menus didn't start immediately. This is true to a varying degree of any home theater receiver, although the length of the silence will vary. The silence is caused by the receiver trying to identify the incoming format. If the delay is too short, I'm told that you can get undesirable noise (mis-decoded gibberish) coming through before the format lock is completed. With the analog inputs, there's no question what the incoming format is and therefore no trouble.

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