BlackGhost - 4 hours ago »
Can I also ask - if there's no update coming this week or it doesn't fix the issues, is the software update previous to the one that screwed things up available anywhere to install after doing a factory reset?
What makes you think it is a software release that caused the issue?
Plenty of evidence that something changed in the broadcast/transmission chain that caused problems with other manufacturers units a month or two ago. I suspect reboots, which by the way I have not suffered from, could be a result of similar.
As for Panasonic, I have one which I bought to compare freeview play devices and I don't use it.
Remote is awful, to many small buttons and illogically laid out. The Guide is pitifully slow to populate, especially if you 'jump' days. UI is old and not well thought out, but each to their own.