The Samsung boxes are a breath of fresh air around here. The Pace boxes are slow, ugly and outdated - Samsung's STB is much faster at changing channels, interactive, anything to do with a menu system and can handle 1.5mbit broadband not forgetting it is shiny silver too.
As an install tech you can pretty much rely on a Samsung to work first time. On the other hand Pace boxes tend to not work, most of the time... imho
So two thumbs fresh
for Samsung and a
for Pace