It started acting strange yesterday. The whole interface was different, with different colours: couldn't get the Digital Guide to show.. various oddities. I did a factory reset, but it stayed the same. There was no signal coming in from the Tv any more, so everything recorded blank. I unplugged the machine and left it a minute... nothing helped. After an hour I gave up with it.
This morning, nothing works: I can't open the tray or operate any of the buttons. I managed to turn it off by holding down the I/O button for several seconds. The LED display shows the word 'Update', but it has been like that for several hours now.
Has the machine died for good? Maybe I am unlucky but over the past ten years I have had at least six recorders of different makes in a variety of locations. All have given up the ghost after a depressingly short time (but never within the guarantee period). If this one (not under warranty) is only fit for the bin, I doubt I shall get another one. I shall try to record programmes I want to watch on my PC instead, or just stop watching TV altogether..
Thanks,
Martin
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try unplugging the unit for about an hour if that don't work then the player is dead.
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Left it unplugged for three hours, to no avail. It sat there plugged in again all night and all morning with the 'Update' message on the LED. I tried switching it off an hour ago by holding the O/I down. And it all came back to life, everything normal.
Sounds like it may be on the way out even so. Or maybe that extended 'Update' fixed something??
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