Occasionally my picture freezes for a few seconds, normally at an important time

Any one else experience this? and what's the solution??

 

There's someone in the control room monitoring you and pressing a button to stop your signal at vital times. You'll have to ring Sky and see if they can get him to stop.

 

 

Do you live near a main road ? or does your dish point at any trees ?

 

You only get 10 minutes free view on the porn channel mate, so it aint freezing you just need to pay

 

Not at all mate


And the rest of you helpful fuckers can fuck off

 

In that case fook knows, sorry

Give Sky a ring.

 

What make of Box have you got?

 

Amstrad

 

Is the box getting hot? Would prob freeze altogether though

Could be weak signal - has the dish moved a bit perhaps? How long has it been doing it?

 

Might just need the dish rechecked and alinged

 

Box is not hot really. Have checked signal strength and its better than my mum and dads and they don't have the problem. May have to steal their box

 

Sounds like a plan

 

the signal might be better but the offset on the dish may not be right or the volts to the lnb on dish may not be

 

There's your problem! - I had no end of trouble with my first Amstrad Sky+ box. Eventually it gave up any + features altogether. I refused to have an amshite replacement so got a brand new Pace PVR3 unit

 

have you or your neighbours got a speed camara detecter mate, i have a snooper and when i forget to turn the thing off it would freeze my sky

 

I have normal sky digital upstairs in my room, we live by a road AND tree's but signals normally good and it only freeze occasonally.

P.s its a grundig and its ALWAYS warm ontop, had it 3-4years aswell

 

Actually, being serious, I know it's not a Sky box but my freeview will do it now and then when a light is switched on or off, or a plug is unplugged etc. It just interrupts the signal. Might be something like that

 

Just spoke a a mate of mine who is a Sky engineer.


He says.....
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Poss dish slightly off or LND (block on dish ) on way out, normally I re-align dish and pop a new LNB on .. that cures 99%.

 

It is quite normal for any Sky box to freeze ocassionally, this is due to the cheap crap components they make them with.
Only need to worry when the picture freezes and you can't unfreeze it without rebooting it. Then it is either the box or LND on the way out.

 

i get this too... but cant complain for the price I pay Sometimes when I turn it on in the morning, its frozen power off, power on sorts it tho..

Wonder one they are releasing the Sky HD boxes, as this is what I want.. promto