Earlier this evening I had an HDR-2000T and an HD-FOX T2 that could not play any Youtube video but just kept on loading and loading. I tinkered with each of them but the tinkering had no effect on the everlasting loading.
Now they both can play after each was given a factory default.
(They are going back into their cardboard boxies now!)
Starting with the HD-FOX T2 it played iPlayer but not Youtube. Playing with the settings made no difference to Youtube. After a factory reset and tune to some channels so that it could set the date Youtube now works fine. I then set the parameters to how I usually have them and Youtube remained OK.
Moving on to the HDR-2000T it played iPlayer but not Youtube. Playing with the settings made no difference to Youtube. After a factory reset (but NO reformat) and tune to some channels so that it could set the date Youtube now works fine. I then set the parameters to how I would usually have them if it had been staying in use and Youtube remains OK.
Its a bit of a pain to reset to defaults as the tuning, schedule and favourites all have to be set up again, but it would be good if someone who uses Youtube regularly would have a go and reports the same and even better if it then sticks.
By the way my HDR-FOX T2(1.03.12) continues to play Youtube OK and hasn't had a reset since 4 months ago when it got given an update to the latest version. My HDR-FOX T2 (1.02.20) continues not to play Youtube; it hasn't had a reset for much longer although it did also have an update to the kernel 4 months ago (followed by reloading 1.02.20).