No Sound Cable into cable in on recorder, cable out to tv in. No sound when I turn on DVR or record program. Sound does work when I use av cables from DVR to t.v. and play comercially recorded dvd. Also in using the cable alone I can not get DVR home menu to show up. I unhooked my old vcr adn followed the same hook up procedure but it doesn't seem to work.

yup,you thunk right

turn off your cable box
turn off the dvr
disconnect cable box from wall outlet
disconnect dvr from wall outlet
unplug e-sata cable from dvr
replug e-sata cable back in to dvr
plug dvr into wall outlet
turn on dvr
plug in cable box to wall outlet
turn on cable box
wait for cable box to go completely thru startup procedure
...then try your list button again.

IT SOUND LIKE THERE SHOULD BE AN INPUT BUTTON ON YOUR CABLE OR T.V REMOTE TRY CHANGING THE INPUT. ALSO TRY PLUGGING DIFFERENT AUDIO AND VIDEO CABLES BETWEEN RECORDER AND TV. ALONG WITH YOUR HDMI.

I am unfamiliar with this unit.
If you have scart connecters on both, connect av2 on the tv to av in on the recorder. set the recorder to record from av source.
You should now record a program, I think the static is the fact that composite is out from the dvd only, not an input, and in on the tv, not an output.

They volume indicator you are seeing is meant to show the volume of content if it were to be recorded on the cable's dvr. This indicator has no effect on the volume of content as it is being watched. This feature allows recording of sound at a set volume even while the tv is off. It sounds as though you'll just have to use the volume buttons on your tv's remote, though you might want to try seeing if there is alternative set-up for those cable volume buttons.

probably a dying hard drive, but could just be corruption, delete all effected recordings, monitor, if issue continues delete all recordings unplug receiver for 10 minutes, monitor new recordings if continues receiver may need to be replaced

Make sure that the sound cables are connected,If you are using the RED BLUE GREEN cables,they do not carry sound.You have to run a set of sound cables RED AND WHITE to the Archos from the cable BOX or whichever component you are recording from.Good Luck.

Connect your TV to AV1 and you SAT/Cable Decoder to AV2.
on the video select the AV2 channel and it will record whatever is connected to AV2. The AV channel selected it is the input the one not selected is the output.
Some PPV Movie channels are copy protected with some service providers. But most channels are recordable.
The aerial lead coming in your house connects to the SAT/Cable Decoder 1st, then connect the output socket on that to the Video/DVD then the output on that to the TV. As long as the leads you use have different ends on you CANNOT plug them into the wrong socket. As the the aerial passes through each device, the device adds its own RF channel to the feed, so you should be able to tune both a SAT/Cable and a Video/DVD channel onto the TV set aside from using AV/Scart.

I don't really understand the question, but you can connect with any of the connections on the back. You can use a coax (cable type connection), the RCA jacks (yellow, red, white), s-video (black cable and red and white for sound), composite video (red, blue, green and red and white or digital for sound). The DVD will still record no matter how you hook it to the tv as long as it is connected to the SAT or cable correctly.

this is uaually a problem with the scart lead try changing your scart lead if this dont work are you running you cable box through the video using a scart lead if you are make sure you press av on the video remote controll make sure the leads are pushed in properly this and make sure their in the right socket ie input output but this should not make no difference hopefull this should solve your problem