DSTV Down?

[Angstrom]

Has anybody else lost all their DSTV channels in the last 5 minutes? The EPG still works but every channel is a plain black screen.

 

[antowan]

Nope. Mine is working.

 

[Angstrom]

Thanks ... I think.

 

[TheREV]

No - all seems ok. (CT)

 

[Angstrom]

Thanks all, fixed now.

Seems it needed a hard boot (in the nuts) and it's working again. First time that's happened in 6 years. I wonder if The Man is trying to encourage me to by that new decoder.

 

[TheREV]

S'funny, but every DStv decoder I've had (4 at last count - now on Dual View) needs a hard reboot at least once a fortnight. Sometimes I wonder if they use similar source code to Windoze...

 

[zerofocus]

S'funny, but every DStv decoder I've had (4 at last count - now on Dual View) needs a hard reboot at least once a fortnight. Sometimes I wonder if they use similar source code to Windoze...

Same here.

 

[Person]

I think they are both made by monkeys

 

[werner]

the monkeys seem to make many cable boxes then...mine here in uk regularly needs a reboot to clear a problem where some channels will just have a black screen, and other channels work fine, I am not alone in this here, it is a common problem.

The more electronics we stuff into everyday items, the more grief we end up having Pretty soon you will run around the whole day just rebooting "common" household appliances, heh heh...sure, stick some code in the toaster on a pic, why not...get ambient and then work out the optimum browning temperature...hehe hehe, daddy, pls reboot the toaster...heh heh..