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ok there are loads of posts on this here so I thought sod it and created another one.
As things are (im pre firmware update) the TV drive has to be the worst piece of AV equipment ive ever had the displeasure to have in my home.
Im hoping its all software but I think there is more going on with my box than that.
Every single night after midnight I suffer from the very poor remote control lock up something I never had with sky+. Ive had failed recordings again something I never had with sky+. All the menus are tediously slow to navigate around and as for layout of favourites well this sucks all these problems were absent from sky+. Now I fully realise this could be sorted with a firmware update but getting a date where all boxes will be flashed by is impossible.One tech guy said 14th feb then he had to admit he was wrong. Then of course still no VOD
Now hardware...
The hard drive is far to loud I upgraded my sky+ box and neither drive that was in there was even closely as audiable as this one also I think there is buffer problems.Today for example I had picture and sound stutter like the buffer was lagging on a pc id say the page file was full and struggling but obviously this box isnt a pc so I dont know. The box has suffered lock ups and restarts these I would call system crashes if a pc but im not getting any warnings or codes or anything.
To sum up this pile of crap will be removed from my house irrelevent of contract as its not fit for purpose as I cant watch tv when I want and the pvr does not work correctly so I have grounds. NTL have till the end of Feb to sort this out or thats it.
The only thing going for it is HD but content is slim and with sky throwing dummies out of their pram im concerned its not going to take off.
These boxes with out of date firmware should never have been exposed to the general public NTL have done their customer base a disservice installing this rubbish all over the place

I would be ashamed if I shipped a pc with so many bugs