[demented]

I was joking. Many electrical devises give off infra red. The theory is when your tv is warming up it gives off more IR and these false signals confuse the v+. There's also the even more ridiculous ones about energy saving bulbs jamming your v+. Unfortunately on that one some people have the same behaviour happen in the daytime or when the bulbs have been switched off for hours.

I am sceptical about this having been with virgin for years. The software on digital tv has always been sluggish. It was sluggish and unstable on Pace boxes, it was quicker on the replacement ones. It's just that the v+ doesn't get on especially well with the current software. So in my opinion it's entirely normal. Like I said others will disagree and think that it's any other explanation.