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Short-lived panic.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Oct 8, 2014
I got home from dialysis last night and switched on the TV to watch "Longmyre". No picture. No sound. 
It just "clicked" about every 30 seconds and blinked the power light. I unplugged it and plugged it back in - no change in the symptoms. 
I fired up my "Surface" tablet and went to TVCatchup.com. They had all the Freeview channels *except* 5USA. 
I missed "Longmyre". 
Instead, I ate a meal of pâté, cheese and potato waffles on toast 
and tried to come up with a plan to get round the lack of a TV... 
About an hour later I decided to plug it back in for one last try... and it worked! 
It looks like the earlier unpluggings just weren't long enough. 
I watched "Bojack Horseman" and half of "Red: Werewolf Hunter" before I fell asleep in the armchair. 
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Short-lived panic.
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