Amstrad HCD1000

Advantages: Good Picture and sound - See review!
Disadvantages: Remote control

...::::INTRODUCTION:::: Sky gave me this box when i signed up to sky multi-room. The box cost £49 with installation, but its free if your a first time subscriber and not getting multi-room! ::::CONNECTIONS:::: There are plenty of connections on this box by Amstrad... You can connect it up to surround sound, share the aerial feed and connect to a vcr or dvd recorder (standard stuff really). There slots to put your sky viewing card and interactive card (like a sky credit card) are stored away under a cover, which adds a nice style to the box. ::::Sound & Picture Quality:::: The sound and picture quality is just like my other sky (grundig) box, but sound and picture are slightly better as the Amstrad box has all the improved data chips and DVB certified stuff etc. The picture is nice on a SD Television, the detail is vibrant... Read review

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Advantages: channels for everyone
Disadvantages: Amstrad boxes

...We decided to upgrade to sky digital when the offer became available for £40 installation cost. That seems to have been our first mistake as we ended up with a dreaded Amstrad box! We had previously had analogue equipment and had subscribed to Sky for 5 years without any problems with either our equipment or Sky. Our luck then seemed to have run out. We took up the £40 offer with Sky themselves and they organised the delivery and installation of the new dish and box and we paid the fitter. Great we thought! We had the family package which cost £11.99 at the time and we recieved all of the channels which interested us such as: UK Gold - Old dramas and soaps Granada Plus - Old dramas and soaps Living - Talk Shows UK Style - Home and Garden programmes as well as all of the primary, discovery and music channels. I... Read review

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Advantages: Look's Nice
Disadvantages: Slow pick up.

...locally who accepted just £20 for a Amstrad DRX300 digital receiver box and she even dropped it around to me within the hour. I ditched the old Sky box as it looked beyond repair and set up the Amstrad box I had just bought this is where I encountered my first problem not the fault of the box I must say. I had to update the box with my details through Sky and this alone took me 20 minute's on the telephone but once it was sorted I was able to get viewing again. However when I turned on the Amstrad box it took a full 5-10 minutes to load up and you just find yourself looking at a blank screen for age's. This I found out was because of the inferior part's used in the amstrad box. Once the Amstrad had loaded I noticed the next problem when using the remote control there is a 4-5 second delay so when choosing channels by the time you reach... Read review

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