Screen Saver kicks in a couple of minutes after starting play

[antipodean]

I have had a queer thing happening for a couple of nights now, where I start playing a recorded program, and after the screen saver timeout period the screen saver kicks in. A quick press of the 'OK' button clears the screen saver, and the program plays to the end fine without any more screen saver.

Anybody else seen this?

Box was bought in Dec, standard software. Location Oxford.

 

[Black Hole]

That is definitely weird.

 

[grahamlthompson]

How is the box connected to the display ?

 

[antipodean]

How is the box connected to the display ?

SCART cable to a CRT set.

It didn't start behaving like this until about 2 weeks ago, so it has performed correctly for 5-6 weeks.

 

[grahamlthompson]

SCART cable to a CRT set.

It didn't start behaving like this until about 2 weeks ago, so it has performed correctly for 5-6 weeks.

Try turning off the power to the box for 15 minutes. If that fails try a reset to factory defaults.

 

[antipodean]

I did try turning it off for about 15 seconds, which should be enough to discharge anything in there. It does then have to do a full rebbot anyway, so any dat astuctures should get re-initialised.

It didn't make any difference though.

 

[grahamlthompson]

I did try turning it off for about 15 seconds, which should be enough to discharge anything in there. It does then have to do a full rebbot anyway, so any dat astuctures should get re-initialised.

It didn't make any difference though.

The power supply capacitors in my Foxsat-hdr keep it alive for up to 30 seconds when in low power standby.

 

[Ezra Pound]

Try turning off the power to the box for 15 minutes. If that fails try a reset to factory defaults.

antipodean : I did try turning it off for about 15 seconds

You need to listen for the Hard Disk spinning down, It can take longer than 15 Secs.

 

[Steppy]

I didn't know it had a screen saver

 

[Black Hole]

Pause a playback or a timeshift or iPlayer (or bring up an untuned channel) for a couple of minutes and you'll get the screen saver (a 6-digit flip-over clock that bounces around a black screen).

 

[Mr Jolly]

Pause a playback or a timeshift or iPlayer (or bring up an untuned channel) for a couple of minutes and you'll get the screen saver (a 6-digit flip-over clock that bounces around a black screen).

or 'watch' a radio program
i got round to recording and playing a radio program...
i wondered what it might do and teh screensaver came on as it played sounding like OP actually but useful for radio not so much tv heh!