BLUEPLATINUM
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- Maspalomas, Gran Canaria
- My Satellite Setup
- ITSarria LTE Internet, 2 X SKY HD, Invacom C120 quad LNB, Raven 2.4m offset dish, TDT (Spanish freeview)
- My Location
- Maspalomas, Gran Canaria
I recently bought a SKY+ 160 (off eBay G*d help me). I bought the box for the extended recording times but also beause it is reportedly good for fringe reception (Canaries).
Things are not going well.
I phoned Sky from a UK number and arranged for my viewing card to be linked to the box.
I am receiving all the channels I was before and the system does seem to be able to hold a signal a little better than my old PACE MKI box.
However, anything that is related to the hard drive seems to have problems. The problems are not always the same. I have tried several software down loads and after each one things seem to change.
At first live pause did not work at all - it displayed the Pause symbol but the transmission continued to be displayed as normal. Now it pauses but usually won't restart.
Many recordings have failed for "unknown reason", and recordings I have made often play back with jumps and broken sound.
I have tried all the usual things - software down-load, Planner rebuild, Full system reset.
Is my hard drive skrewed?? Please help.
Box details are:
Thomson
Model 116c089
Version 4E2002
Op. System 1.31A08
EPG s/w sky+1.28.9
Things are not going well.
I phoned Sky from a UK number and arranged for my viewing card to be linked to the box.
I am receiving all the channels I was before and the system does seem to be able to hold a signal a little better than my old PACE MKI box.
However, anything that is related to the hard drive seems to have problems. The problems are not always the same. I have tried several software down loads and after each one things seem to change.
At first live pause did not work at all - it displayed the Pause symbol but the transmission continued to be displayed as normal. Now it pauses but usually won't restart.
Many recordings have failed for "unknown reason", and recordings I have made often play back with jumps and broken sound.
I have tried all the usual things - software down-load, Planner rebuild, Full system reset.
Is my hard drive skrewed?? Please help.
Box details are:
Thomson
Model 116c089
Version 4E2002
Op. System 1.31A08
EPG s/w sky+1.28.9