I have the same piece of crap. I bought this receiver to replace my non- HDMI Sony Home Theater receiver because except for slightly less power, it has 3 HDMI in and one out. For a year and a half, it was fine. I moved October 15th...used all new 16 gauge speaker wire, everything is wired fine and now with any surge in sound-even at a 42 sound level, it goes into PROTECT mode and shuts down. It does this with DirecTV too. I am not happy that i didn't replace it with 7.1 but I didn't think I'd be moving and all that conduit stuck to wallboard, the thought of ripping it ll down and getting another speaker was too much. Now this receiver is worth nothing. No more Sony audio products...