[meld51]

Hello All!

I recently had a bit of a problem with my TV system which I thought was down to the STB. I arranged for an engineer to come and take a look. Big mistake!

He just bustled in and exchanged the box without listening too much to what my problem was. As it turned out he needn't have changed the box since the problem turned out to be somewhere else in my TV system.

After it was changed, I was left with 3 further problems:

Firstly, my new Samsung Box has no Audio Out unlike my old box. With the TV and HiFi system I have, this is a bit of a problem. I explained this to the guy but he wasn't interested. As far as he was concerned he had done his job once I got a picture and the crappy sound on my TV.

Secondly, this box freezes at least once a day, and probably more frequently. This means that it is a bit touch and go when I want to record anything when I am out.

Finally, I have a media centre PC. It controls the STB but you have to stick a little LED flasher in front of the remote receiver on the STB. I think that this is a crude way of doing it but that’s how it works. Well it worked well for the old STB but it is very hit and miss for the new one. When you add this problem to the "freezy" issue it becomes almost impossible to record anything automatically.

Has anyone else experienced any of these problems? Are there any fixes or workarounds that anyone knows of?

Cheers folks.