Why does my Apple TV (1) freeze all the time
Recently my Apple TV (1) has started freezing up constantly, often randomly after half an hour or so, but quite reliably when I select "internet" from the menu menu (with the two options 'YouTube" and "Radio" shown - but for instance just now it froze while changing the "transition" effect for the Screen Saver settings).
The only solution each time is to hold down menu/down for 6 seconds, enter recovery mode and select 'restart'. "Run Diagnostics" finds nothing wrong.
I haven't tried factory reset (though I did try the partial reset to defaults) as I'm worried I'll have issues re-syncing all my content (and it'll take a long time).
It's obviously not an issue with the remote (I have a programmable remote as well as the original, and the force-restart option always works). Unplugging the power cable/replacing does NOT restore it when it has frozen.
It appears to be related to something it's trying to download automatically from the Internet to display?
The software is up-to-date (version 3.0.2 - OS Build 8N6014 from Feb 2010)
The only thing I changed recently to add a bunch more photos to the screen saver, which could be related, but as I said the most reliable place it freezes is when selecting "Internet" from the main menu which wouldn't seem to be related, and it's happened quite a few times before any of those photos have been displayed. There's loads of unused capacity (113Gb). It's just weird that something that had been working reliably for so many years would suddenly become so flaky.
Hard not to think it's built-in obsolescence!
