[Matt Devo]

Just for closure:  I figured out that an EDID handshake was having issues, mainly if there was some type of system crash while sitting idle.  The solution was to save/dump the EDID from the TV and save it, I used libreelec's script to do so: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/custom_edid
Hope this helps anyone else with black screen issues when turning on their TV. 

 
thanks for closing the loop on this