I've had my "Blue Sky" PVR for about 5 years.  It's been solid until a few days before Christmas where the sound was cutting in and out.  It has degraded since then to never having sound when I turn the system on.  As is 100% of the time.

Things I've tested without any success.

- Swapped out HDMI cable twice with a new ones.

- By-passed stereo and went to TV directly.

- Tried every audio setting in both my tv, stereo and pvr. 

The work around is one or a few of the following:

- PVR Restart - on the PVR menu

- System Refresh - on the PVR

- Pull out the plug on the PVR and force hard restart. 

I can seem to eventually get the sound back if I keep cycling through these steps.  But I'm growing tired of having to do this every single time the system is turned on. It's 20-30 min of dicking around. 

On top of the sound, I'm also getting sporadic picture issues as well.  It hasn't happened often, but all of a sudden I lose video as well.  White snow. That's another restart of the PVR.

IMO.. the PVR is the problem.  Is there any fix for this?