Comments on: Software Update Causes Mass Box Failure

By: admin

admin — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:20:25 +0000

@Anna

Think you have been fed a line by a questionable installer. Either the receiver is faulty (unlikely given the reliability of the Manhattan) or he wasn’t capable for setting up for Freesat. Freesat doesn’t have faults but if they did, the same would be apparant with Sky too.

If you have no satellite signal, or cannot get the first screen to recognise your postcode, the fault is with the installer.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:10:11 +0000

I got my manhattan box on friday,pluged it in…and its not working…tel.man who instaled freesat here.he siad its freesat this time,gave me d number to call office.Called office about 15.13.d answering machine said our offices r now closed we r open from mond.-fri. 9am-5pm.!left messege.let’s see.now i’m more considering Sky

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:08:48 +0000

@Anna

Amazon haven’t yet stocked the item so you might be waiting quite some time. Try satbuyer, they have access to much more stock.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:48:45 +0000

Thanx admin.
I’ve just ordered Manhattan from Amazon,i’ll have to wait as they don’t have any in stock at the moment(maybe that’s a good sign).
I shall keep my fingers and toes x.
And i want to take this opportunity to thank you all.You have clarified lot’s of things for me. We just have to stick together
man at Grunding said that its bad luck. i thought does my Karma really spread this far!? i thought i better check The Allconective net……
This has helped me a lot
Thank you all x

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:24:04 +0000

@Anna

You need to stick to decent brands, not the offering from Harvard Group (Bush, Grundig, Goodmans). If you want standard-definition only, got for the rock solid Manhattan Plaza DS-100 (http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/digital-boxes/manhattan-ds-100)

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:24:14 +0000

I took back 2 Bush boxes and 1 Grunding box to Argos.can i buy a box somwhere which is working properly ,maybe i’ll have to switch to Sky.

By: Gary Barnacle

Gary Barnacle — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:51:23 +0000

My humax fresat box will not switch on just get continious lines going arround the display

By: Aileen Burr

Aileen Burr — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:29:58 +0000

Screen is slipping sideways

By: admin

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:34:27 +0000

This news was from October 2009 so isn’t likely to be the reason why your receiver is stuck in standby.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:28:10 +0000

My box is also stuck in standby now.