Glad I read this, another excuse to push back the HD box till Winter... someone better tell GOO that his expensive setup could tumble and fall
What an arse, of course Sky will only know about the problem after it actually happens, it's how they deal with it afterwards that matters.
They should have got it right at the design stage if it's a fault that can cause expensive damage. I assume the interface follows a set standard, with limits on such things as timings, voltage and/or current. It's not like trying to forecast security holes or a possible Health & Safety risk - then the ingenuity of the human element will bite you every time. If Windows Vista or a new motherboard blows up your processor or graphics card you'll have good cause to rant. Same here IMO. And I think the critic took exception to the advice Which is in effect saying, if it breaks, stop using it.
Ohh come on, there are literaly thousands of different TV's out there, and if this is a fault that occurs after extended use, I think it is unreasonable to expect Sky to have eliminated an unknown fault prior to production. They, or should I say Thomson (the box manufacturers) would have carried out extensive testing on various HDTV's, but there is no way they could have tested every eventuality. As I said, how Sky now deals with the problem is what matters most, hopefully it will be resolved soon, but if it's a minimal number of cases they may just pay compensation, we will just have to wait and see. That, I would assume is a stop gap measure
this is kind of lame and stupid. as cpemma says, its not like its something that can not be calculated or predicted, there are design mesures and guidelines and schematics to obide. yodasarmpit: it seams that http://www.yodasarmpit.co.uk/ is MIA.
Cheers, hosting company is swapping over to new servers. I assume Sky/Thomson designed the box to communicate over a known HDMI standard, but obviously there is something different with the Pioneer TV's
Do we know if this is all Pioneer PDPs, or is it a certain range of models? I do know that when I first had HD installed, my TV didn't like the auto res setting on the Sky Box - It would happily put out 576 for non HD content, but if you switched to a HD channel the TV would fail to switch to the higher resolution offered. As a result, the Sky box is now set to send 1080i regardless of HD / SD channel.
it's moved to most panels now and that hi-def projector which is doing the rounds, this is surely something which came up during testing... they had long enough to do 2 weeks of "casual use"?
Ouch. To be fair, this could be any number of faults, because let's face it, SkyHD boxes won't be a simple machine by any means. It could be a bad batch of chips or something, who knows? I'm sure it'll be all hands to the pumps over at Sky until this is solved...
