definetely during the broadcast, but now all of a sudden it stopped, the optical connection is fine as it was with my las HD receiver, i ended up turning the dolby digital off, then back on, and then it seemed fine, weird? I dunno?
I know directv i heard has the dolby digital setting backward, when you switch it to on it's really off, and when it's off it's really turned on..... kinda wicked if you ask me
but right now it seems fine as i switched through all the hd channels that were cracking and popping and now it's like normal tv. I have no idea LOL. but what was weird was last night right after it got installed it was cracking and popping than a few hours later it wasn't, I went to bed and had Just Friends set to record on HBO hd at 9 this morning, it did, i checked it and played it back but it had the cracking and popping, but as of right now everything seems good to go so im not sure what's going on back and forth all of a sudden