Updated to a HDR-FOX T2 from a 9300..

Ezra Pound said:
It is hard to see how a power cycle fixes a problem that placing the box in standby doesn't, in standby most of the box is powered down anyway, only the clock in the front display, the Remote control receiver and sometimes the co-ax feed through amplifier is powered, leaving the Hard Disk, CPU and video processing off. It may be worth putting the box in standby and ensuring that the hard disk stops spinning, if it doesn't it may-be that the box never really goes into stand-by and stays in the Half-awake state where, although the Video to the TV is off the Hard Disk, CPU etc. are still running
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Latest thing - I was just about to box up the machine and send it back, when it just stopped happening.
Interestingly, it stopped happening without any obvious changes - though perhaps there was a firmware update overnight.

My thoughts re the power-cycle are that doing a "hard" reboot forces the machine to boot from cold- sometimes you see the same thing with a PC, a cold boot fixes a problem that a warm boot doesn't. But it seems to have fixed itself (though we did apparently lose one channel at the same time: Dave ja Vu just stopped having any content. You could list the programs on it, but switching to the channel just showed a blank screen.

Back from holidays to find that the channels need re-tuning *again*, dammit. Which means, of course, re-inputting all the scheduled recordings.
 
A cold start definitely does things a warm start does not - for example resynchronising the system clock to the broadcast time, and probably other hardwarey things. Although a warm start reboots the processor, hardware registers may well retain the previous state (and may be intended to), including functional definitions inside any gate arrays or the SoC. If any of these got into a dicky state, a full power-off restart is the best way to ensure nothing is taken for granted.
 
Have you got Dave Deja Vu back?

The channel was temporarily "parked" at 800 on its return after UKTV won a 4th slot but has now been moved to 25.

Martin
 
The retune should have sorted that one. It moved multiplex (some time ago), so although it is still on the same LCN the tuning parameters for it would have been the wrong frequency until updated by a retune.
 
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