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divxmaster
20-05-2010, 12:14 PM
Well my trusty old PACE sky STB box fried last night, after about 10 years of faithful service.
(Pace DSR600).

According to sky, stream11 isnt processing properly, whatever that is.
So, my question is, when the technician turns up tomorrow, and I presume he will replace the
box, what new sky stb boxes are compatible with philips tivo S1?
By this I mean, that the tivo can control channel change with IR?

Is there a box I should try and get from him, or one I should avoid?

Cheers,
Mike.

divxmaster
20-05-2010, 07:46 PM
Update:

Whoa, found the problem, and it isnt the sky box. Seems that sky have made a change to stream11
(thats CNN, disney, prime, mtv,animal planet,comedy central). It now gets inteference from 11g/11n wireless on
11g channel 4,5,6,7 (2.427, 2.432, 2.437, 2.442ghz). Havent made any change at all to the 11n router,
it was on auto channel select, and its certainly chosen those channels in the past year with no problems! (probably).
Hard coded to channel 11, and problems go away.
Tried to inform skys service rep of this, but he had no idea what I was talking about, not sure he even knew much
about the 2.4ghz spectrum.

Cheers,
Mike.

Skolink
20-05-2010, 07:58 PM
I doubt they still use them, but the Motorola DTH335 won't work. The even older DTH325 does work. Not sure about newer boxes, the picture on the website of 'Standard decoder' is too small.

Wibble
20-05-2010, 08:30 PM
Well mine got replaced my a smaller silver PACE. Which was compatible with the original. Didn't have to change a thing.
Model is DS230NNZ

divxmaster
21-05-2010, 07:28 AM
Great, thanks, I'll note that model number down. as mentioned, my old box is working again, but It may
fry in the future.

Cheers,
Mike.