AppleTV makes horrible noise on startup and when waking up from standby I have an Insignia 25" LCD TV and an Apple TV Gen 2 connected to it via HDMI. When I wake the AppleTV up from sleep mode or boot it up from being turned off, it makes a loud, white noise-y sound. You can listen to the noise here.

The noise is most likely from the AppleTV, since the TV doesn't make the noise when it is on the DVD player input, and the noise starts exactly when the AppleTV light turns on.

Has anyone had this problem? If so, are there any known solutions or workarounds?
This is as you correctly described static.

This will be due to the connection, not the Apple TV its self. You will need to confirm this by.


using the Apple TV with another television
use another HDMI cable (go for one with gold connectors)


I would check the cable first as it sounds like something is interfering with the signal.