No offense but EE's are the worst when it comes to hooking up electronics.
kind of like having the electrician pre-wire your home theatre room. But, that aside, uless under some strange situation you hooked up the audio output of your DVD and TIVO into the audio output of your TV this shouldn't have happened. Try the DVD player on another TV to make sure it isn't the unit itself. Make sure you have the audio out going into the audio in on the tv. Are you using some sort of surround sound?
I bought this Sharp Flat screen tv model #32F641 a few months ago. I don't know if it is coincidence, bad luck or the TV. But the audio output of my Toshiba DVD player and my new Tivo DVR have both been damaged. The DVD player was damaged when I initially set up the TV. I thought that I must have done something wrong. Which surprised me becasue I have set up lots of home entertainment systems without ever damaging anything. Oh, and I have a degree in EE also
But the red flag did not go up until my brand new DVR lost all audio too. I am convinced that the TV is emiting some feedback signal into my other equipment. So, now how do I protect my other equipment? Is there such a thing as a home audio output buffer? Something to protect my other componenets. I contacted Sharp, but I really don't expect to get anything from them. Any suggestions, thought, experiences?

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