Apple TV freezing immediately after startup

Hi, I've been away for a fortnight and suddenly my Apple TV no longer works. It starts up as normal and shows the startup video clip, then it displays the menu with "Top Movies" selected, however it doesn't display any movie thumbnails above the menu like it used to. The remote won't do anything at this stage (except the white light on the Apple TV flashes when a button is pressed).
Then after 4 minutes 20 secs (same time every time) the Apple TV restarts by itself and comes up with the language choice and then the recovery screen. I ran the diagnostics check and it said it's working correctly. The remote works at this point.
If I then choose to restart the startup clip displays and then it freezes exactly as before.
Using "IP Scanner" I can see that it's on the network and I can ping it. However it doesn't show up as a device in iTunes and I can't connect to it with Remote app on my iPhone.
It's running the latest Apple TV OS, though at the moment I have no way of finding out what that version is right now as it freezes!
I live in the UK - could it be possible that it's trying to display a movie thumbnail that's causing it too freeze? I've had this problem with a video in My Movies that I encoded using VisualHub.
I'd rather not do a factory restore at this stage because I've changed the original 40GB HD to 120GB and had problems doing a factory restore when I last had problems with it over a year ago.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions
Tim

It IS hot, but looking through other posts it would seem to be normal for ATV.
It does get hotter than you might expect without it being a problem, heat is dissipated through the casing, the bit you need to watch for is the ambient air temperature, if the heat is unable to escape because it is an excessively warm environment or it is placed in a cabinet, problems can occur. However in such circumstances it seems that the unit doesn't restart properly straight away, ie it seems to need to cool, and it also seems that this doesn't necessitate a restore.
(AaMoI, where did you get the avatar from and can it be stored in Fonts? - just curious).
, this one. (shift + alt + K)
By component do you mean a cable with three different coloured plug-ins?
Yes
I was leaning towards early sign of hardware failure, but because it works normally for awhile after a factory restore, perhaps as you suggest there's a faulty cable or a software glitch.
May or may not be, but it's possible, so I'd tend to try it myself.

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