Seven Sky HD boxes? I know all products can have one which may be troublesome, but if you have had connection problems which have persisted through seven boxes then I would have thought you should be looking for a solution elsewhere than just changing to a higher capacity box.

I can't advise on your particular TV but surely the problem lies somewhere in the connection setup menu on the TV? You say you have sought help from your dealer, so I presume he/she has sorted this particular aspect, but what do you mean by the dealer re-fixing all the connections? Taking them out and plugging them back in again? It will need more than that I think!

Finally, what's the scart reference got to do with anything? Surely you should be connecting solely via HDMI. Dispense with scart as a first step and access the connections menu in the TV.

Now over to the experts!

I wouldn't have thought that the 1TB Sky+ HD box will be any better. It's an AMSTRAD at the end of the day. I'm gutted that you can't actually buy a SKY box by a resectable manufacturer like Panasonic, Sony, Pioneer etc. I have the Samsung box and it crashes, restarts its menu etc. The problems from this box has made me steer well clear of Samsung blu-ray players etc.

Thank you, Kokomo for your advice.  Apparently the SCART needs to be connected on these older 7-40s in order to have sound.

Also, thank you Paul.  Although the large capacity box is an Amstrad, I am still hoping that anyone using this could report on its reliability.

Villarsch

Didn't realise that about the necessity of the scart for sound on this model of TV.

I still don't fully understand why you have had 7 HD boxes, can you clarify? Was it because of unreliability /breakdown problems with the previous 6 or is the reason for replacing each of them that none would connect properly to your TV? The fact that you use the word 'reliability' suggests that they have all failed mechanically for some reason.

Unfortunately it is a known issue for BV7-32 and 7-40 MK's I & II. DVI to HDMI adapter for the HDMI cable (picture + 5.1 sound) and SCART for stereo sound. I have it also between my HD Sat box and my BV7-32 MKII (with HD Ready kit installed)

Yes, Kokomo, all the Sky boxes were replaced by Sky because they were faulty.  On looking at some other sites, there are claims that Sky's high capacity box is a "premium" product.  Can anyone confirm this?

Villarsch

Thanks for the explanations. Sorry I couldn't help, but at least I've learned something (again!).

Well, I can say that we upgraded our BV7-40 with problematic Sky HD box to the larger 1TB Sky box at the same time as upgrading the tv to BV7-55 and now we have no problems!!

The Sky box doesn't crash all the time like the last one did and no handshake issues.

The difficulty is that I can't say whether the solution was the box or the tv!!

But...the new box is definately better.

Mike

I suggest anyone with a flaky sky box gets on ebay and searches for SKY PSU or similar.

I have a SKY HD box that would stick in standby, lose signal, drop recordings seemingly at random. 

All cured by fiiting a new psu.

Now  works 100% via the STB - before it would sometimes lag behind the beo4 a bit.

There are various suppliers - it took me about 5 minutes to replace the board....a doddle - or you can buy a kit of capacitors - as it is duff caps that are the root of these problems - if your handy with a soldering iron.

The seller I used even offeres a part refund when you send the duff board onto him - so about £20 all in...