Alex4000 - 4 days ago »
An update on my parallel HDMI/RCA work around described in post #33
Over the Christmas period the 4000T was heavily used (!) for recording and switched on numerous times when a recording was already in progress. On almost all occasions the work around ensured that the 4000T would switch on for live viewing.
There have been very very few occasions when it would not. These appear to happen if we try to turn on the 4000T as a recording is starting or in the few minutes after. Give it a further few minutes and the 4000T will then turn on for live viewing.
What I have found interesting however is when the 4000T would not turn on, the following proceedure also remedied the problem immediately:
Turn on TV
Switch TV's input to its own internal turner (Ie. not HDMI or scart)
Turn on 4000T
I suspect the reason as to why it works by switching the TV on first is because the TV is switching inputs by your manual intervention. When I had trouble with my 2000T originally when using a HDMI hub it would always work if I selected TV then HDMI 2 on my Panasonic TV.
It would not work when using the hub if it was a timed event. Fortunately taking the HDMI hub out of the equation eventually solved the issue in any event.
Viera Link really needs to be switched off. I have had this on various Panasonic devices over the years and have always found it to be an irritant rather than an aide.