Don't know if this has been covered, I just starting shutting down my 6412 at night and noticed when I power back on there is no picture or sound. Playing a recorded program seems to bring it back. Has anyone else come across this? and if so, is there a fix?

same problem...I don't think there is a fix for it yet, I only set my harmony remote to not turn off the 6412 at all and leave it on and that seems to solve the problem.

atong, that doesn't solve the problem, it masks it. I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago and came to the same conclusion though. Either reset your box and you should be OK for a few months again or leave the box on and ignore the problem... neither is much of a fix but it seems that is all we have.

Seems like a pretty good solution to me. It hasn't happened to me in a year (since I realized that leaving it on fixes it). The other thing that leaving it on fixes is that it won't turn off right in the middle of a program you are watching. My 6208 would do that if it had turned itself on to record something. It was too stupid to realize that I had turned it on and it dutifully turned itself off after it's recording was finished. Don't know if my 6412 exhibits this annoying trait since it has never been turned off since it was plugged in.

does anyone know if the hard drive continues to spin and or record when the power is turned off? It sounds like the hard drive on mine gets quieter.

I am also having this problem, where you get no tuner after power on. I had fixed it twice by doing the pull-the-plug-to-reset trick, but it keeps coming back. Of course, you can always play a recorded show to restore the tuner.

I've also found that you cannot record or swap successfully during this scenario. And if you hit pause, play, forward or backward it doesn't seem to know the name of the show you are watching (well, I guess you aren't watching anything at that point anyway :^) It simply displays something like "0$:" and doesn't do much after that.

Moral of the story: always have at least one recorded show on your disk.

does anyone know if the hard drive continues to spin and or record when the power is turned off? It sounds like the hard drive on mine gets quieter.
It does keep spinning, it just doesn't buffer anything. The best thing to do is leave the box on all the time, & put both tuners on the digital music channels, they're not buffered (at least, not on my system). This solution is like shutting the DCT off, & it eliminates the blank screen when powered on scenario.

I am also having this problem, where you get no tuner after power on. I had fixed it twice by doing the pull-the-plug-to-reset trick, but it keeps coming back.

This is a strange phenomenon. Mine was exhibiting this behaviour occasionally (I've had it about a year), but it hasn't done it again for a couple months.

I don't recall doing anything to try to correct it the last time. I think it could have been a short power outage that did it for me!

meshmellow

I've been exhibiting this exact same problem as well. Any resolve to this? Firmware upgrade? I have S/W version 71.44 - 1203 and Firmware 9.12.

I also have had problems where I cannot pause or rewind live TV.

In all cases it seems if I unplug the box and plug it back in, it fixes the issue temporarily.

Thanks.