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I had the disruption to signal problem with my 2000T also. I think it is a handshake issue as the feed goes live. Anyway I fitted a passive splitter and this solved the problem. Whilst it should update to the latest software version if you leave it connected to the Internet overnight, a lot of people have had more success downloading it onto a USB and doing it that way.
That’s how I did mine BTW.
Just to report back as to where I am up to:
I did buy an aerial splitter and that cured the pass-through problem. Just for fun after the software updates and the setting to switch low-power standby off, I have put it back on the pass-through feed. In this mode, there are occasional small “blocky picture” glitches when, I think, the unit is switching from standby or to start recording, but I could live with that if I had to.
The thing I still don’t like is the long time between hitting “ON” on the remote and the HD grinding up and the picture appearing. I do think this gives the impression of some internal housekeeping being done – maybe it is checking that the channels are all where they were yesterday or something – rather than the electronics actually having to spend that time coming out of the non-low-power standby mode.
Anyway, it’s fully in use now and records well enough.
Billaboard – 2 hours ago »
The thing I still don’t like is the long time between hitting “ON” on the remote and the HD grinding up and the picture appearing. I do think this gives the impression of some internal housekeeping being done – maybe it is checking that the channels are all where they were yesterday or something – rather than the electronics actually having to spend that time coming out of the non-low-power standby mode.
My whisper quiet 500GB HDR-2000T comes out of standby at a very predictable sub 4 seconds regardless of if whether it is an HD, SD or data channel that it switches on to, but I do have power saving in stand-by off.
Luke – 1 hour ago »
Billaboard – 2 hours ago »
The thing I still don’t like is the long time between hitting “ON” on the remote and the HD grinding up and the picture appearing. I do think this gives the impression of some internal housekeeping being done – maybe it is checking that the channels are all where they were yesterday or something – rather than the electronics actually having to spend that time coming out of the non-low-power standby mode.
My whisper quiet 500GB HDR-2000T comes out of standby at a very predictable sub 4 seconds regardless of if whether it is an HD, SD or data channel that it switches on to, but I do have power saving in stand-by off.
I have commented about noise in one of my other threads. Mine is nowhere near as quiet as my 1000s. Not sure how yours is so fast out of standby either. Power saving on 35secs power saving off 20secs?
I can’t remember any particular noise with the first one I owned which was also a 500GB. With my current one the lack of noise was one of the first things I noticed. Very little heat, vibration, or noise. I also have a DTR-T2100 which is quiet but my HDR-2000T is even quieter than that!
My HDR-2000T is definitely going into some sort of standby and still achieves under 4 seconds start up. The reason I am confident that it is successfully going into some sort of standby is that if a cable with an integrated LED is plugged in to one of its USB ports the LED goes off after about 7 seconds when the HDR-2000T switched to stand-by (providing there are no recordings due to start in the next 40 minutes).
With my first HDR-2000T (in 2013) the start up time was just under 30 seconds. Wit my current HDR-2000T power saving in standby is off, the start-up time was also under 30 seconds when I first got it. I’ve just tried it again and its 35 seconds with power saving on! Export of recordings to an external HDD aren’t as fast as when I first got it either.
USB ports are not active whether low power standby is on or off. I’m not aware the 2000T has had any hardware upgrades regardless.
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