auto protect for your speakers. As the noise made when your AC3 decoder isnt working right, will harm speakers. Sometimes the finals do same.
I have a Harman Kardon AV235 reciever which will turn itself off about every 20 minutes or so. Here's the thing - it only shuts down when I am watching a DVD. Anyone have a clue what is up?

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