Suddenly last weekend my 2/3 year old previously problem-free little bedroom 26" Sharp TV started having an audio problem: no audio. Thinking that it might be an HDMI issue with the HD box, I disconnected/reconnected a couple of times over the weekend which appeared to resolve it. In reality, I think it was just the power cycling that did it.

But when it happened again last night, I noticed that the "info" for the signal display "SAP" in red. But no matter what I did cycling through the options with the Audio remote button, nothing worked. I couldn't get the SAP off or any volume at all. There's no master menu "speakers off" setting.

The only links that Google returned involved a "hard reset", unplugging the set for at least four hours, so I did that last night but couldn't check it out yet today.

Anyone ever run into this? Is the set headed for a repair shop? As much as I'd love to setup a small 5.1 system up there, the WAF will undoubtedly reject that outright, so it's TV sound or no sound. cry