Samsung V+ Box, what a difference!
 

This box is so much better than my old SA. Only minor thing is picture quality is not quite as good. However no more freezing, especially late at night when changing channels. Everything is pretty much instant. Anyone else find it better?

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Its much faster than the sa

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I'm still on an old SA V+ box that we got years ago and i don't really have a problem with it. It is a bit dodgy when flicking through channels though and especially in the early hours just after midnight. I can live with that though.

Is it just the channel flicking that's better with the Samsung box then ?

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Better fast forward and rewind, much quieter when recording and of course channel changing and no slowdowns.

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We got a new samsung last week and the difference isn't massive but it does feel more polished to use, when the tv guide loads the data does too! When you change channel the screen goes black right away. When your are going through the channels but without changing channel the tv guide data matches the tv channel.

All in it's a much better box

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It's better but not that much better

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So if you have a working SA box then how do you get VM to replace it with the Samsung box? Will they do this on request?

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The only way they will replace your box is if it develops a fault but you would only get whatever the engineer has on the van which could be another SA, personally I prefer my SA as it has worked without hiccup for over 2.5 years now.

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Is the picture quality not being as good as the SA really a minor issue? That's if it is of course. I've never seen a Samsung in operation.

Just as an aside I'm watching a recording of the Spanish footie. Not HD but the picture quality is just superb from the SA.

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Are you serious? The SA box was the 1 thing that nearly put me off getting VM, it's horrible, I absolutely hate the thing. The Samsung, on the other hand, is brill.

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I've got an sa box and could swap it anytime for a samsung out of my van but a year later I'm still using the sa. It has it's little hiccups but on the whole it's reliable

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Ok fair enough, does the unresponsiveness of the thing not drive you up the wall? It does me.

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It annoys my wife as she's a channel flicker but I usually use the arrows to read what's on then press ok. :p:

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Lol fair enough, it must be me who's impatient, even flicking through using the arrows annoys me :mad:

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I pay for an HD box to watch HD programmes on, if the picture is (allegedly) better on a SA box, than a Samsung , then that is what I would prefer - the time to switch channels is irrelevant compared to the picture quality, in my opinion.

If you want to flick channels, rather than watch anything, then get the one that flicks faster, if you can - but I prefer watching to flicking ;)

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My SA is fine and I have no issues with it whatsoever and it changes channel fast enough for me it is responsive enough for me, plus I use a Samsung for diagnostics every day in work as it is the nearest unit to my desk but I still prefer my SA.

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Not for me - it dosen't have component connection! :td:

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I've had both the SA and a Samsung box. To be honest I think they are both as good as each other, had no lagging while changing channels on SA box at all. I only changed due to the SA box dying after it cutting out a couple of times, engineer came out and replaced it with a Samsung box (It took three attempts though as the first two died just after they were switched on!!).

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OP reckons icture quality on Samsung is worse? Errr...ok. It's the same.

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How do you know?

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I've owned both and been able to compare. Absolutely no difference what so ever with picture quality apart from the SA menu problem (which I think got fixed with an update?)

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It's still there, I don't notice a difference either but alot of cutomers tell me they prefer the picture on the sa

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I think it's a typical change thing. Something changes and they feel that somehow they are losing out and hence they over analyse a picture that is in no way different to their old STB. I have owned both at one point (before our SA box died) and now have 2 Samsungs instead. What I am about to tell you is the act of a sad obsessed geek yes, but the point is I'm anal about this kind of thing and would like to think if I cannot see a difference, there is no difference. When I first got an additional STB upstairs it was a Samsung and so I had one Sa and one Samsung in the house. I set them both up with the same HDMI lead (two identical ones) and flicked between channels in HD and SD for a few days (much to my ladies annoyance) and I guarantee you, there is no difference between them in picture quality. Not with colour reproduction, motion blur, sharpness, contrast. Nothing. If there is a difference my mates and I can't detect one. As I said, sad, but this was when the Samsung box was quite new and so we decided to check it out.

Maybe the OP simply was comparing the sharper menus on the Samsung, which scales them properly for 1080p right?

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I don't generally flick, but the whole slowness of the box just infuriates me, you think you've pressed the button, nothing happens, so you press it again, and go past what you wanted :mad:

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Anybody know what causes the stb to nearly die in the early hours of the morning? I've had a SA box since spring 2007 and it generally works ok during the day (although it's progressively getting slower over the years and is usually a few steps behind any remote control key presses) but if I've been out of an evening (generally a saturday night, so I'm talking about early sunday morning) and try and do anything, the box is practically unusable. Rebooting does nothing to rectify it. It just hangs, won't change channel, no on-demand will work, etc.

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Its the box updating the tv guide etc

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My SA reboots if I'm recording one HD channel whilst watch a recorded HD programme, knackering the recording.
I've also had it reboot whilst watching an HD recording if I leave the "live" tuner on an HD channel.
When the engineer upgraded my broadband to 50mb last week he said I should have the SA swapped out asap if I'm watching mainly high def. Has anyone with a Samsung had reboots with HD channels? I don't want to have the hassle of changing if the Sammy has similar issues with multiple HD programmes.
Or should I wait for TiVo and a larger disc next year?

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The sa shouldn't do that, a hard drive format should be tried first. What makes you think you would get a samsung?

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I am getting my SA replaced on Saturday cause of a failed Hard Drive hoping to get a Samsung box. I am all about the responsiveness!

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As previously posted you will get whatever the engineer has on his van on the day.:)

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Oh I know the drill :) That's why I said I am hoping!

At the end of the day it is for the box downstairs which I hardly use! It's just my mother who goes on about how slow and unresponsive it is. :(

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My SA box downstairs did that when we got all the new HD channels and it was very frustrating, it seemed to happen typically on ITVHD with the footy that was shown at the time. Luckily, I have another SA box upstairs which is connected to a non HD TV so I just swapped them. This other SA box does not have this problem so I have never bothered reporting the box which is now upstairs as we never watch or record HD up there. Job sorted

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They're dreadful - I know how you feel, sometimes it's quicker to go flick through channels upstairs and come back down when you know what you want to watch than battle through the sludge of the SA box downstairs.

We're housemoving soon and I'm in two minds about switching to Sky rather than have to endure the slower and slower and slower performance of our V+ box to be honest. Oh and it always really really lags up going through the adult channels on the TV guide which is incredibly embarassing when you're trying to just do a quick flick up to the next batch of "normal" stuff.

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Sign up as a new customer, you might get a samsung