Marvin - 46 minutes ago »
it became apparent that "standby" is no longer anything of the sort. It appears that in order to enable pass-through, the entire box is kept on and made to look like it's in standby by just the cutting the output signal and switching the LED to red.
If standby is attempted when there is less than 40 minutes to go then the HDR-2000T will only cut the output signal (but keep the HDMI connection) and turn the LED to the dimmer red version.
If the next scheduled recording is more than 40 minutes away then it will also cut power to the USB ports.