My samsung is doing the exact same thing, after a few seconds of changing to another channel the sound suddenly turns off. Have you found out the problem and how to fix.
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Several of my channels all of sudden have the sound cut out after about 4-5 seconds when switching to them. the picture is fine on all channels but 3 or 4 channels now lose sound after 4-5 seconds. Can't seem to find an incorrect setting? Just started having this problem.

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