Teletext resetting box
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I have a Sagem ITD62. When I look at Teletext on ITV and Channel 4, the box will reset after a few minutes, sometimes even if I'm not changing pages. Occasionally the text will just lock up instead.
This has been happening for some time but it goes in phases - a few weeks ago it was working perfectly. I should start keeping track of dates when it works and when it doesn't.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
This has been happening for some time but it goes in phases - a few weeks ago it was working perfectly. I should start keeping track of dates when it works and when it doesn't.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
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I've had the exact same problems on two seperate Sagem boxes.
In fact one of them even occasionally resets simply on changing channel.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a common problem with Sagem DTT boxes.
If this is a common problem cant Sagem send out a software update to fix it?
I totally agree.
But it seems to me that Sagem's approach is simply to keep making newer models of boxes, cheaper to manufacture, smaller, lighter, with lower power consumption and (hopefully) less bugs, and maybe more features than the previous generation of boxes.
And as for the people (like myself) who have purchased their older models - based on the lack of software updates (to my knowledge) they probably have dropped support for them. I guess there's no profit in it.
I hope I'm proved wrong though, and it would be nice if an update did happen. But, my main box is not a Sagem anymore, so I'm personally not too bothered.
Everything changes so quickly nowadays though. Going from cutting-edge to obsolete seems to take mere months now rather than years.
On the plus side though, at least entry-level new boxes are down to £25 quid, or around twice that for an excellent one.
just had a look on the Sagem website they say they know about the problem and are working on it.
Can I suggest that the "sale of Goods" act may be appropriate here.
Until manufacturers start receiving back their products that are no longer fit for purpose will they understand that they have to supply and then support their products if they are to succeed.
A wee bit strong is that not?
You wrote your post on a bug ridden machine which if you gave it back you would never have a pc as they are all ''faulty''.
It would be fairer to say that once consumers start paying a decent price for their goods they would get good quality kit and standards would rise.
What would anyone be willing to pay for a good freebox?????????
I would go to maybe £150 for a box without pvr if it had good software support and a decent r/c.
If you pay £25 for a box imho it should not be covered by the sale of goods act as you are buying the tat that you deserve.
You'll find its switching from 301 to 303
I have the same thing..
EDIT: The update fixes the problem, box runs a bit faster too..!
Lets hope they've updated Mheg...
A wee bit strong perhaps but it may be your only avenue to strike back after buying defective goods that the manufacturer can't be bothered to fix.
As for a decent price to pay: the NOKIA 221T was one of the most expensive STBs on the market when produced (£120+) and NOKIA have done the dirty on people who purchased it by refusing to resolve the bugs within their software which as a result causes it to intermittently lock up.
As for a resonable price to pay for a PVR I paid Euro169 for the Technisat Digicorder T1 with 80G/b HD and it works all the time, everytime, without lockups or the like.
I am happy with my technisat purchase, at a reasonable price, for what has been to date a good quality product.
Damn! I don't see how I could have missed it, my box is on every day.
Check the site for the repeated OAD, Turn off your box then turn it on again... It should give you the OAD message..
My box is started from cold at least once a day, if there was an update available, I should have seen it. Bleh! :mad: I'll just have to hope for a repeat.
I would buy another one but I like the analog channel out for going around the house on the 62.
Can somone please post the sagem website so I can look and moan to them.
Thank you.
Here is the Sagem website: http://www.sagem.com/index.php?id=445&L=0
It could fill up the memory on older boxes...
Application : ITD60-23 1.3.00 [061711943]
new download ID: d00
Hasnt stopped any off the problems with the box lately tho
See the main Teletext thread: The problem is not just affecting Sagems: I'd blaim Teletext and the people who run Freeview as a "hobby"!
As usual, I asked Sagem to please add this problem to the FAQs on their web site.