Preffered Sky+ HD box

[Badgerboy]

Evening,

My second Sky+ SD box has finally given up the ghost, so I need to replace the unit. Sky are not interested in offering me a cheap second HD box, so I have been nosing around eBay and there seem to be refurbed units with 12 months warranty for only £100.

Now, which of the makes are particularly poor? The Amstrad SD boxes were terrible, so I'd prefer not to make the same mistake again!

Thanks

[vladcjelli]

Which bit of the box died?

We had a Pace box which ran faultlessly until Sky did a system update, which introduced all manner of hassles.

If it's only the hard drive that's gone, pop a new one in. There are a number of guides online, I followed one when I upgraded my hard drive from 80gb to 500gb. Anything else, get a new box.

Surely the age old threat of cancelled contract due to poor customer service and hardware should be enough to get a new box out of them?

[Badgerboy]

Several parts I imagine. It manages to miss out chunks of recordings despite having a replacement disk, and now the optical sync is waaaay out. (And this one has no option to adjust the delay) Oh, and it turns off randomly.

It's had a hard life.

I can pickup a AMSTRAD DRX890 (3d job as well) for £100 delivered with warranty. Seems a good deal, but is this because the box is likely to burst into flames due to poor construction. I shan't be bothering to call Sky, I vowed to never do so again and I don't need the stress.

[oola]

Be careful when buying a refurbed box. We've had a couple and the phone/modem socket's which come in the refurbed versions haven't worked so couldn't get a callback signal to Sky.