Replacement

So I'm up bright and early today as we are due a visit from a Sky+ technician to have a look at our sadly demised Sky+ box a little after a month after it was first installed.

Fair dues to the bloke, he arrived when he said he was going to arrive, and as chance would have it, it was the same fella that installed the system in the first place. He didn't even bother to run over the standard checks when I told him that it didn't come out of standby and it just sat there making whirring noises, and instead just got a new box out of the van and installed that instead.

After he'd finished I waved him goodbye under the promise that we'd probably see him in another month. I think I can safely say that since the replacement box we've got is an Amstrad, and from the research Phil has done on the net it appears they are even more unreliable than the last model we had.

The rest of the day is spent doing not a lot of anything except a bit of work, ordering some stuff online (a card from moonpig and some pressies for a toddler who is well advanced into his construction career already). I then waste a huge amount of hours playing Zuma. It's not a very complicated game but it's highly addictive to say the least (I started playing it during my trip away and haven't really stopped playing it since... I'm determined to get past level 9!).

When Phil gets home I cook tea and settle down to watching a bit of TV as well, and already I think there is a problem with the new sky box. Watching live TV is fine, however if you watch something that you recorded via the box the sound seems to cut out on a regular basis. I'll keep an eye on it, but I reckon that sky dude will be back before he knows it!

Posted by Abi on the March 14, 2006 9:19 PM