"Give us some of the troubleshooting steps you used other than direct connect."

-Exchanged the AVR with a new one , and it worked fine for a relatively short time.
-Used a new HDMI cable across the floor
-I know the Cox boxes are finicky but the AVR will not show the OSD over the cable

Thanks for the input Brent but this lady will blow a gasket if I tell her she needs to buy a $300 part to make this work correctly after it has been working flawlessly for almost a year and I sure do not see myself eating it at this point.If I can not find a solution then I see myself putting the old AVR back in and running component video to the tv. Sweat equity is a lot easier to spend these days than real money. If the issue would have shown itself from day 1 or even the first week it would be a lot easier fro me to justify it to her.