I have tried both rf (into the cable rf) and direct a/v cables going into the set, mind you the antenna rf connector hooked up to a set of rabbit ears for high def....is working fine.....as is the dvd player plugged into the tv with a/v cables....
and as i had mentioned in the beginning, i swapped out my comcast box in my living room with the identical box from my bedroom with the same results.....this unit is an rca selenium hd61wlp164 unit with the builtin smart card slot...i'm wondering if it is simply a case of incompadibilty of the digital comcast box with this tv?
if i hook the comcast raw cable from the wall into the cable rf input it goes out and finds like 208 channels in both analog and digital channels (although,most of the digital channels are empty subcarriers channels with no info to them) but there is no sound issue .....problem is losing out on all the extended digital channels with the box