I had Sky HD installed last Saturday. I upgraded my existing Sky+ box (80GB Pace). The install was bang on time, easy enough with a semi-friendly engineer. Delta Mortising Attachment 17-905 Manual on this page. He came in with the box and I ask what brand it was, to which he replied Amstrad. I explained I'd been looking around the net as to people's opinions on the best box. He said he can generally see little difference between them and that with Sky owning Amstrad this would be the norm.

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Of course, I was skeptical about this since I've been reading here quite a lot and Pace seems to be regarded as the best all round. I don't blame him, he probably didn't want to make things more difficult. When he had set it up, the HD channels weren't functioning. Had me a little worried for a moment. He had a bit of rant about Sky workers not doing their job and phoned them up, and the problem was quickly resolved and the channels came on.

One of the first I saw was Sky 1 HD with Futurama playing which I knew wouldn't be HD but was being shown in 4:3, which the engineer seemed surprised about and so phoned Sky again to see if it was a problem but they said it was normal. Anyway I've got an Amstrad box. I didn't dispute it and just thought I'd give it a go. I was at least glad it wasn't Thomson which I heard a lot of negative things about. The model number is DRX780UK and it came in the Sky+ HD black/grey box.

I've been using it since Saturday and the HD picture to me is excellent (particularly WWE on SS HD, Discovery HD, BBC HD, Rush HD channel etc). The SD is picture decent but not great, not as sharp or defined as my Sky + box I think. Nothing to complain too much about. The box is also very quiet so far, not noticable. I've noticed the menus seem to be faster than before which is a plus too. So far so good. I just wonder if a Pace or Samsung would be giving me slightly better SD picture, but I won't worry about it too much.

I was wondering if anybody else has experience with this box? What are the Amstrad boxes like in general or is it too soon to tell? Kaplan Lvn Program Vista Ca on this page. Hi Chaps, Just thought I give my review of these two boxes (Amstrad & Samsung) as I have had both. I had an Amstrad fitted on the 19th Dec and my thirst thoughts were that its quiet, goodish HD, no failed recordings, 70 signal strength etc. However i was not that convinced it was that sharp on SD. So after a month of playing with the settings i still thought that the SD could be better. So phoned Sky asked them if I could have new box (Samsung or Pace) and agreed to replace it.

I had a Samsung fitted on 15th Jan and here's my thoughts 1) SD picture is 20-30% sharper with better colours 2) HD picture improved the same 20% 3) EPG is 50% faster 4) Signal 100% of both feeds I have it set to 1080i so don't get the delay in switching from SD to HD and its spot on Cant fault it the Samsung is in no dout better than the Amstrad, I don't care if people say that the Amstrad is quiet my top 3 I want from a box are picture quality sd & hd, response ie EPG, 100% recordings. The box needs to be quiet but its not the top 3 maybe 4-5 hope it helps.