I get the opposite to Tony. I get my boot logo at 100% brightness, then the player dims. It sometimes comes up too dimly in the office, too.

When this happens, I find that the dimmer control seems to have been scrambled, and there's no relation between the displayed number and the actual brightness.
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Toby Speight
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