Is my Sky+ box faulty?

Soldato
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Hey guys,

I got Sky+ multiroom for my birthday in September and to be honest I’ve only really just started using it to record stuff :)

Anyway, the last couple of things I’ve recorded have appeared to be a bit dodgy during playback… Today I recorded Only Fools and I’ve just finished watching it; well the bits that played okay? The picture was fine but the audio was very iffy – I had none at all in some places :(

The last thing I recorded before that, a film on one of the movie channels from last week, had more or less the same problem, but it was concentrated to just 5 minutes in about the first half hour of playback?

Another thing I noticed was the live pause thingy didn’t work when I needed it during the week! I was watching a match and the phone went, I went to pause the TV and all that happened was the ‘pause logo’ appeared briefly with the picture in the background still going… the screen eventually went blue and the program info bar came up, but there was no pause – I resorted to switching the box off a couple of times and that seemed to fix it?

It was annoying that it didn’t work when I wanted it tho :mad:

So, do you think it’s faulty? The unit is an Amstrad.

Cheers,

SW.
 
mine went like the probs you are having and low and behold about 6 weeks later it was much worse, was told to do a system update by pressing buttons on the front of the unit - this then killed it completly. i rang sky and had to pay for an engineer call out of £75
What? How can they do that if it's not your fault :confused:

What's the situation now, did they replace your unit?

Touch wood, it hasn't done it for a while... I was using Live Pause a lot last night and it was okay, plus I watched a 30min recorded Simpson's and that played back fine :)

I haven't got round to trying any of your suggestions yet either?

SW.
 
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