Sky+ boxes

kkpolobear

well i had 6 sky plus boxes in 4 months of each other 2 of them in the same week then i managed to get hol of a pace box and no trouble since
touch wood

nrsql

JasonW wrote:

They get a few complaints, bbc think its a great idea to have a moan about sky/murdoch and get the edge over the shoddiness. I admit there are problems with some boxes, but you usually only ever hear the negative and never the good which is why I thought I'd balance up a one sided view of sky+ that appears on a few forums and watchdog now and then.

Some people have them in cabinets with glass doors and the boxes overheat, don't realise its got a very sensitive and fragile hard drive in and it gets a knock or 40, and no wonder it dies. Others (amstrads especially) the reputation is poor and sky probably should publicly shame amstrad into replacing or fixing them. Also updates to add new features can sometimes contain bugs. There is a whole list of things which can go wrong, and like anything some do fail, but it HAS to be the customer or something in their home including dodgy electrics or power surges, spikes, brownouts that are causing problems if they are going through several boxes.

Don't think that arguement holds up.
Going through multiple boxes suggests more than a few problems.
I don't have problems with any other electrical equipment in my house (and there's a lot), if iy was the conditions then it implies the boxes are too fragile for a consumer item.