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I haven't made any unsubstantiated claims - unless you say calling their bluff is itself a claim? You, on the other hand, are accepting the word of somebody who refuses to back up theirs (and no, the issue is not resolved until users' HDR-2000Ts are passing through aerial on standby). If you have good reason for accepting the claim, let's hear what it is.This applies equally to yourself. I have no reason not to accept that the issue has been resolved, and that an updated firmware will be released when Humax are ready.
I have solid reasons to be sceptical. Let's think for a moment what the are the hardware aspects of passing a UHF aerial signal from a tuner input socket to a pass-through output socket.
This can be done passively, in which case there will be some signal drop between input and output, but the pass-through will be the same whatever the power state of the unit (ignoring some loading effects), or it can be done actively with an amplifier between the two. It seems to me extremely unlikley there will be any other kind of switching to enable or disable the signal path, other than to power the amplifier on or off.
OK, so they want to offer a lowest possible power standby option where the amplifier (and other things) is turned off. If I were designing it, there would be a power rail to support everything that is only required in normal operation, another power rail for everything that needs to be powered in standby but can be done away with for low-power standby, and another separate rail for everything that has to be on all the time. Selecting low-power standby is then a case of turning the medium-power standby rail on or off with the main rail.
My hypothesis is that they made a mistake and connected the pass-through amplifier to the main power rail. This can't be fixed by firmware.
Your hypothesis is that either nothing else uses the medium-power standby rail and they forgot to switch it on for medium-power standby, or that all the systems that could require power in medium-power standby have separate switching and they forgot to switch on just the aerial amplifier (or, even worse, they forgot to make the medium-power standby option do anything different from low-power standby).
We'll see. If Humax do ultimately release a firmware update that fixes it, then your hypothesis is proven and mine is disproven. I don't mind being disproven, but I do object to people saying that it is not a valid hypothesis (until disproven). While the existence of this firmware fix remains conjecture (which it is), my hypothesis is as valid as any other - but if they do have a fix, why announce it and then hold it back without explanation?
[Edit: extensively updated since first posted]
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