My 3 year old Amstrad Sky+ box is always reluctant to add series link on
BBC1. Most other channels are instant, but BBC1 can take 5/6 attempts of
timing out before it adds it.

Is this normal, can anything be done about it?

Cheers.

"Doctor D" wrote in message
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My 3 year old Amstrad Sky+ box is always reluctant to add series link on
BBC1. Most other channels are instant, but BBC1 can take 5/6 attempts of
timing out before it adds it.

can anything be done about it?

upgrade your box ?

Try a forced software update, worked for me when I had no Sky +
functionality on any BBC channels.

"Vass" wrote in message
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"Doctor D" wrote in message
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My 3 year old Amstrad Sky+ box is always reluctant to add series link on
BBC1. Most other channels are instant, but BBC1 can take 5/6 attempts of
timing out before it adds it.

can anything be done about it?

upgrade your box ?

Can't. CRT TV with no HDMI socket so new Sky boxes are useless to me. Very
reluctant to scrap the TV as picture and sound are superb, and it's only 10
years old ;-)
The series link has always been like this on it.

"Norman Radox" wrote in message
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Try a forced software update, worked for me when I had no Sky +
functionality on any BBC channels.

Thanks, will read up on any side effects and may then give this a go.

"Doctor D" wrote in message
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My 3 year old Amstrad Sky+ box is always reluctant to add series link on
BBC1. Most other channels are instant, but BBC1 can take 5/6 attempts of
timing out before it adds it.

can anything be done about it?
[...]
The series link has always been like this on it.

Well in that case that my suggestion (not that helpful I admit) is that
you really ought to have complained to Sky about it when it was brand new
and under warranty, if it's always done that. Sounds as if it has never
worked :-(

I can't understand why anyone who is paying money to a supplier would
suffer with such an obvious fault for 3 years, when it could and should
have been dealt with by the supplier immediately?


It's never worried me enough to bother about it, which is why it took me 3
years to ask.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:23:48 +0100, "Doctor D"
wrote:

Can't. CRT TV with no HDMI socket so new Sky boxes are useless to me. Very
reluctant to scrap the TV as picture and sound are superb, and it's only 10
years old ;-)

Even the new HD boxes still have a SCART output, just like the old
ones. No HDMI required.

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:37:59 +0100, Mike Henry
wrote:

The series link has always been like this on it.

Well in that case that my suggestion (not that helpful I admit) is that
you really ought to have complained to Sky about it when it was brand new
and under warranty, if it's always done that. Sounds as if it has never
worked :-(

I can't understand why anyone who is paying money to a supplier would
suffer with such an obvious fault for 3 years, when it could and should
have been dealt with by the supplier immediately?

The old Sky boxes (non-HD ones) have always been like this. The newer
ones cache the series link information so it's instantaneous. The old
ones have to wait for the data regarding that specific program to come
around on the data stream on that channel. It used to only take a
couple of seconds, but due to the increase in the number of channels
it now often times out before it finds the information.

All Sky boxes, even the latest 1TB one, has a Scart socket. Does the
OP not have a Scart socket on his TV? I assume it does as he stated
the picture and sound is "superb".

Failing that, you can get a Scart to RF converter from Maplin for £30
like this one:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/programmable...odulator-33050

That'll allow a Scart output to connect to the aerial socket of the
TV.

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Vincent

Vincent wrote:
: Failing that, you can get a Scart to RF converter from Maplin for £30
: like this one:
: http://www.maplin.co.uk/programmable...odulator-33050

: That'll allow a Scart output to connect to the aerial socket of the
: TV.

Also not necessary! ALL Sky boxes have an RF output! (as well as SCART and
HDMI for the HD ones!)

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:09:59 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
Mc) wrote:

Vincent wrote:
: Failing that, you can get a Scart to RF converter from Maplin for £30
: like this one:
: http://www.maplin.co.uk/programmable...odulator-33050

: That'll allow a Scart output to connect to the aerial socket of the
: TV.

Also not necessary! ALL Sky boxes have an RF output! (as well as SCART and
HDMI for the HD ones!)

Hmm, looks like you're right. I could have sworn the new 1TB boxes
didn't have an RF out.

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Vincent