I can now join in this conversation, but only on behalf of my sister.
She lives a few doors down from me, and she can easily pick up my weather data. She was using the vantage vue console to view it.
She has now bought the new console, and asked me to pop round and set it up.. jeez, what a nightmare!
It did all of it's updates, when it came back on, the data froze on the screen and it said no sensors were connected. I did a reset, when the console came back online, the background colour was a solid blue colour, not the colours you see in the pictures. I turned high contrast on, the blocks turned black/grey, but the background colour stayed solid blue.
I decided to do a factory reset, set it all back up again and then the data froze on screen. Again, I hit the reset button. When it came back, the high contrast setting was working. Dark boxes and background. If I turn off high contrast mode, it does nothing.
I haven't said anything to my sister, but it is absolutely dreadful!