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Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha
Should it ? was there an update recently ?
I noticed the following behaviour the other day.... I asked it to record the GP which started about 6.15. I also put the box on 103 so I could rewind to the start if it forgot to do the recording.
Strangely when I came to watch at 6.30, I tried to rewind but the box gave me the coming out of hibernation message. It obviously wasn't buffering as normal. However I checked the recording and that was fine.
So obviously the HD was running as it was recording but the LiveTV buffering was in standby mode. Seems reasonable if a little odd.
In Standby mode I agree it's still a heck of a lot of power. If you put it into standby it really should power down all HD and audio/visual systems except the Scheduler/CPU.
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Could someone from Virgin please confirm that they have in fact rolled out an update which, amongst other things, affects the way V+ standby operates and, perhaps, explain the rationale, if any. It would of course be nice to get some advance warning of such a change, assuming it has happened intentionally. Perhaps Virgin don't realise that people use the capability of coming in after the start of a program, on the fly, and rewinding to the beginning. It is quite obvious from the posts on various forums that people have been taken by surprise by this and in many cases found this to be a source of frustration, even annoyance. It may well be that there are good environmental reasons underlying such an "upgrade" (?) but this surely could have been done a little less cack-handedly.