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Yeah it is LG, will try swapping the scart sockets. If not how do I do a planner rebuild?

The copy+ program works on your PC by reading the data on the Sky+ drive and then you can save it on your PC and then copying it back onto the new drive. This means the drive also gets formatted correctly. If you use a hard drive caddy you can use your PC to store the drive image and then swap the drives over in the caddy, On my Sky+ and HD boxes the drives spin all the time, it's normal.

Quote: Originally Posted by Undecided Adrian For Sky+ the drive needs to be IDE (PATA now) which are slowly being phased in favour of SATA out and so getting these drives is getting harder. You can copy over your programs using the COPY+ program Copy+, the free Sky & XTV disk copier software and this would also format the drive to the correct format as Sky uses a non standard format. Finally Anytime isn't the only thing that is...

Have a look at post 4 in this thread - Thompson HD Box Problem

If you have a 5.1 amplifier, why don't you use an optical connection ? Much better !

A conversation with a friend who is a TV engineer has clarified the problem. The fault is actually one speaker is not working at all and the other speaker is working properly. This results in a sort of weird one sided stereo. Even setting mono in the Sound Settings menu still produced no sound from the right hand speaker. On his advice I managed to isolate the fault to the Sky box TV scart socket, by connecting the TV via the VCR Sky box...

Do what was said above unplug it from the mains wait at least 10 seconds plug it in again, wait for a minute then power up from the remote.

You have a few options depending on what you can/are allowed do. 1 - Fit a standard Sky dish and just run in the feeds from that (this would be the easiest and cheapest depending on the dish location. 2 - Speak to the management to see if there is a spare feed at the head end that you can utilise and run a cable from there, this is also a cheapish option. 3 - Fit a stacker/destacker, again this will have to be fitted by the management company...

I've recently created and released an Android application for sending remote recordings to your Sky+ (HD) box from your phone. It uses your mobile Internet connection rather than sending text messages. It's called Remote Recorder and I've created a trial version that allows 3 recordings to be sent from it. The application is still under development, but there are people using it every day to set up recordings. Please feel free...

Hmmm, a little clue as to what happens when you try to record would help. What happens, any error messages, what sky box do you have, make model. There was a recent sw download which 'broke' Pace Sky+ boxes where the HDD had been updgraded (easily fixable).