This is getting ridiculous - Constant freeze / Apple resets

Question

OK this is now driving me insane and i think i'm going to have to take the ATV back for a refund.
The box just keeps freezing and hangs until the Apple logo comes up with the reset menu. I've run diagnostics but it never finds anything wrong and i swear i'm about to put my foot through this thing.
The symptoms are all over the place.. It first started dropping off the wireless network and freezing when streaming content from my Mac so in the end i cabled it, seems to have sorted it for a while and now if iTunes updates itself at all the ATV stops what it's doing and hangs. This happens on streaming music or internet radio and i've given up on streaming iTunes video content.
It seems the only way i can get it to play anything is with a full sync over cat5 and this is of course NOT what i wanted it for.
Anyone for any ideas? I've stopped it syncing now automatically with iTunes to see if that's the issue and i'm waiting to see the outcome of that.
I see people are having hdmi switching issues so it maybe worth noting this is connected using HDMI to DVI.
TIA

Answer 1

Many people are seeing problems since latest software updates but they're still probably in the minority.
Are you running 3.0 or 3.01?
I'd advise you to send feedback here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
Apple need to know about such issues.
HDMI has it's own problems in some instances, the issue with DVI is that you may fall fould of HDCP protection issues with purchased content. Component may be a better option, either way you'd need a separate audio feed from AppleTV.
CAt5 is not practical by the sounds of it.
I've always maintained that AppleTV/iTunes for some reason do not handle brief wireless network outages gracefully - and once a connection is lost it does not always automatically re-establish when the cause of the interruption has passed (eg RF interference from microwaves/landline cordless phones/neighbouring networks etc).
Wireless is inherently unreliable in my opinion but when it works it can do so nearly flawlessly.
An option I use on some of my devices is mains powerline networking adapters (I use Devolo, there are many other vendors eg Netgear, Belkin, generic etc) and I find them very effective - might be something to consider trying, though it would only solve the issue if network interruptions not software/hardware faults were the cause.
Good luck.