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Stop It · 25-03-2015, 11:46

Well, if that's how you want to act, fine, but consider this.

All you have done up until now is asked people to confirm your own diagnosis that the TiVo may be at fault, and refused to consider any other factors in play. You clearly aren't looking for help, but a pat on the back for being "right". The fact is that the TiVo could be the harbinger of doom that your TV was always going to suffer.

Unless if you have a professional TV testing kit, you cannot say for sure that your "HD connections" are perfect, as they have a tendency to go, especially after a long service life that your TV has had. Nor have you discounted the possibility, or told us as such if you did, of a plain old cable fault by trying a different HDMI cable to connect the TiVo to the TV.

A TV going into standby on it's own implies an electrical interference issue, or a TV suffering a fault that goes into standby to avoid catastrophic failure. Without ability to see your TVs service menu or any diagnostics, it's impossible to say for sure what is causing it, which is why I suggested to remove the TiVo from the equation for now. If it stops the standby issue, I'd be changing the HDMI cable, trying a different connection method (Another HDMI port or SCART) and then, and only then, suspecting the TiVo equipment.

Fault diagnosis is always a process of elimination, not blaming something until proven otherwise.

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Stop It Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Biggleswade Age: 41 Services: VM Vivid 200 VM XL TV & Sky Sports VM Phone Posts: 895	Re: TiVo Well, if that's how you want to act, fine, but consider this. All you have done up until now is asked people to confirm your own diagnosis that the TiVo may be at fault, and refused to consider any other factors in play. You clearly aren't looking for help, but a pat on the back for being "right". The fact is that the TiVo could be the harbinger of doom that your TV was always going to suffer. Unless if you have a professional TV testing kit, you cannot say for sure that your "HD connections" are perfect, as they have a tendency to go, especially after a long service life that your TV has had. Nor have you discounted the possibility, or told us as such if you did, of a plain old cable fault by trying a different HDMI cable to connect the TiVo to the TV. A TV going into standby on it's own implies an electrical interference issue, or a TV suffering a fault that goes into standby to avoid catastrophic failure. Without ability to see your TVs service menu or any diagnostics, it's impossible to say for sure what is causing it, which is why I suggested to remove the TiVo from the equation for now. If it stops the standby issue, I'd be changing the HDMI cable, trying a different connection method (Another HDMI port or SCART) and then, and only then, suspecting the TiVo equipment. Fault diagnosis is always a process of elimination, not blaming something until proven otherwise.