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Recommend me a good & cheap freeview box?
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<blockquote data-quote="Simba27" data-source="post: 322404" data-attributes="member: 182734"><p>I'm still looking to buy a Sagem box.</p><p></p><p>My Mico box has taken a turn for the worse now, in addition to it's previous faults, it now reports poor signal and the picture breaks up but I know the aerial is OK.</p><p></p><p>I opened it up and had a look inside: It uses a Phillips chipset. I noticed that several of the capacitors were swollen and leaking electrolyte - that must account for some of the problems I've been having. </p><p></p><p>The problems caused by faulty caps in PCs are well documented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague), and my Comag satellite system was also aflicted by this. Given that this has been known about for some time, I have a suspicion that manufacturers are deliberately using components that they know are going to fail shortly after the warranty runs out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simba27, post: 322404, member: 182734"] I'm still looking to buy a Sagem box. My Mico box has taken a turn for the worse now, in addition to it's previous faults, it now reports poor signal and the picture breaks up but I know the aerial is OK. I opened it up and had a look inside: It uses a Phillips chipset. I noticed that several of the capacitors were swollen and leaking electrolyte - that must account for some of the problems I've been having. The problems caused by faulty caps in PCs are well documented (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague), and my Comag satellite system was also aflicted by this. Given that this has been known about for some time, I have a suspicion that manufacturers are deliberately using components that they know are going to fail shortly after the warranty runs out. [/QUOTE]
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