Recent content by peanutz

Do Sky think they are winning anything with these tie-in contracts? I can only speak for myself, but I am permanently avoiding Sky just out of principle on what they did with Ch4 + Ch5 Now that the economy means people will have far less leisure-money for a while, they need all the goodwill...

cheers, yes the signal I have is pretty good. So that leaves me no closer to satisfaction than dreaming of throttling their technicians ;)

Now onto my 2nd 'big' tv, this time a Samsung F96 52" LCD. Lovely pic, but still many digi channels (terrestrial) have a lip-sync delay, maybe just a few millisecs, but it may as well be 2 minutes it is so annoying. Some channels are defo' worse than others though. Spent a lot of money on the...

thx guys, yes I reflashed the box with the 2 latest updates from the Fortec website, but if it freezes again I'll try the other recovery methods first. you've all been very helpful, much appreciated

Thanks you, as a noob I hadn't figured I could do that, restored the brains via USB and we're back in business. thanks again

My Fortec Star Passion had been working very well, lovely SD pics and fine HD. Did the latest software updates and it run fine for days after that too. After 2 days on standby though, it powered up only as far as past the 'mountain' boot scenery, then sits frozen and locked-up with BBC HD...