Distorted audio via HD200 extender

[jack_leach]

During initial playback of a recorded show, the audio will sometimes sound “garbled” (legible but seriously distorted). The problem only occurs on about 10% of the shows that I watch and the problem never occurs in the middle of a show, i.e. if the audio starts OK at the beginning of the show, then it will remain good for the rest of the show. I have four HD200's and they all have the same periodic problem. If a show starts with garbled audio, then sometimes the audio will go good all by itself after a few seconds, but most of the time I have to stop the recording, jump around to some other menu options at random, and eventually select the recording again and “usually” the audio will then be OK. This is obviously a “playback” problem (not a “recording” problem) because the problem is not repeatable, i.e. playing the same video segment will sometimes be garbled and sometimes OK. I'm recording 2-channel audio (not 5.1) using an HD-PVR and on the HD200 I'm running the audio through the HDMI cable.

[heatvent]

Did you ever find a solution? I had similar issues and gave up.

[jack_leach]

Yes, I still have the problem. Note that I have four HD200's and use one of them about 90% of the time and that's where I always have the problem. I don't think that I've ever had the problem on the other three HD200's so I plan to swap the known bad(?) unit with a known good(?) unit to see what happens. I'm hoping that I can prove that I have one bad HD200 and then do an RMA with Sage.