[TelstraClear] T-Box issues continued

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Master Geek

#563268 31-Dec-2011 15:29

Oh, OK, cool, in a well-ventilated cabinet. Box itself is cool, on top of DVD player, which is seldom used, and powered off.

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#563272 31-Dec-2011 15:49

My T-Box is officially stuffed! Constantly freezes and goes to a black screen and says no signal. Then I unplug the cables and restart it only to have it freeze again after 1-2 mins of use, its been like this for the past 4 days whereas a reboot was required maybe once or twice a week previously.

Called Telstra today and a repair guy will come out next Thursday!!! They better fix it and give a decent credit on my account. A week with no TV thanks Telstra.

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Master Geek

#563275 31-Dec-2011 15:53

chiefie: Whats the operating environment you guys in? Our t-boxes from first day have been doing well. Seem very weird and strange that you all experiencing less than happy usages.

Honestly I think it's just luck of the draw. We have not had any problems with our T-Box lately but have had a lot in the past (I've probably jinxed it now). Ours has always been stored the same way - in a well ventilated cabinet with nothing on top of it and it has nothing underneath it.

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#563276 31-Dec-2011 15:54

Me thinks there's a bit of teasing going on with these "mine's always been fine" with implied "it must be you" kind of posts. It's a simple fact that there are many bugs. They have been acknowledged by TelstraClear. At least one is readily reproducible - where the T-Box attempts to record a third programme and freezes. If some owners didn't have serious performance issues, then they must have a special release of the hardware. The remaining performance issues (it's still hardly responsive) must also be on all devices.

I look forward to what's coming in 2012, but would love to see a list of what is coming and roughly when.

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#563282 31-Dec-2011 16:33

chiefie: Whats the operating environment you guys in? Our t-boxes from first day have been doing well. Seem very weird and strange that you all experiencing less than happy usages.

You are either lucky to have struck a good unit or you work for Telestra?. Incidently, I have been involved with electronics for over 50 years so I know not to overheat equipment.

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#563408 1-Jan-2012 09:18

Then I must have two luckiest units installed on the first day of TCL announced Tbox. One operates in open environment, the other is within a closed but sufficiently ventilated tv cabinet. Both are on the whole time without ever going into standby mode - them both generate sufficient heat at best.

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#563467 1-Jan-2012 12:49

chiefie: Then I must have two luckiest units installed on the first day of TCL announced Tbox. One operates in open environment, the other is within a closed but sufficiently ventilated tv cabinet. Both are on the whole time without ever going into standby mode - them both generate sufficient heat at best.

I always use the standby mode when not in use, but as from to-day I'll leave the unit on and see how things go.

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#563571 1-Jan-2012 19:13

Sitting there watching a Midsomer Murder (recorded, with another being recorded) and screen went blank. T-Box unresponsive so had to do the power-dance. After about 30 minutes there'd only been one murder, so quite a slow episode. Will just have to imagine how it turned out. Probably a few more murders. Barnaby should be looking for the only person in the village who owns a T-Box ...

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#563594 1-Jan-2012 21:26

chiefie: Then I must have two luckiest units installed on the first day of TCL announced Tbox. One operates in open environment, the other is within a closed but sufficiently ventilated tv cabinet. Both are on the whole time without ever going into standby mode - them both generate sufficient heat at best.

Ever been any problem?

Guess you have no issue keeping house warm :)

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#563595 1-Jan-2012 21:27

Tiny issues like crashes but not maybe once in few months.

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Master Geek

#564201 4-Jan-2012 08:20

Anyone else notice a number of series links set to record 'fell-off' on the first January? I had severall recordings that record daily/weekly that were gone on the first and had to be replaced.

lanceanz

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Master Geek

#564237 4-Jan-2012 10:36

RobertT: Anyone else notice a number of series links set to record 'fell-off' on the first January? I had severall recordings that record daily/weekly that were gone on the first and had to be replaced.

I've only two linked recordings - Judge Judy and Coro Street. Judge Judy is correct (the only link I use that deals with 2 episodes being run back to back, and that doesn't annoyingly include all the alternate broadcast times). Coro Street is set to record Thursday, so that looks fine too.

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Master Geek

#564270 4-Jan-2012 11:26

chiefie: Tiny issues like crashes but not maybe once in few months.

I suggest it might be time to buy a Lotto ticket!!

Iceni

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#564938 5-Jan-2012 18:32

Iceni:
chiefie: Then I must have two luckiest units installed on the first day of TCL announced Tbox. One operates in open environment, the other is within a closed but sufficiently ventilated tv cabinet. Both are on the whole time without ever going into standby mode - them both generate sufficient heat at best.

I always use the standby mode when not in use, but as from to-day I'll leave the unit on and see how things go.

Well, I tried Chiefie's idea about leaving the unit on instead of using the standby, and everything worked okay for a few days. However, when turning the television on to-day it again started with a black, blank screen, resulting using in the T-Box reboot shuffle yet again.

Sorry, Chiefie but your theory just got blasted out of the water:-(

I've reached the stage where I'm seriously thinking of ditching the T-Box and going to Sky:-(

ChristineNZL

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Master Geek

#564957 5-Jan-2012 19:31

We always leave our unit on - seems to make no difference at all. We hadn't had problems for quite a while but this morning was greated by the dreaded black screen and the red record button on the unit was on. We had one partially recorded programme (reason: unit powered off) and one failed recording (reason: unit was off at scheduled time). I hope we don't lose all our recordings when we go away - not that there's a lot on the telly at the moment worth recording!

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