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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 1370" data-attributes="member: 175235">Actually the Sony 760 does have optical audio out enabled, what people moan about is that unlike Sky+ it is not DD5.1. The people who believe that Sky are evil gods say that Sky disabled 5.1 in the s/w to push people who want it into getting Sky+, others say it is a hardware issue and it could never support it even if Sky wanted it to. There is also the issue of licensing, to have DD5.1 all the receivers would need to have the Dolby logo on them and as they don’t, they can’t legally use it even if the hardware and software support it. Whatever you chose to believe it looks like the current Sony’s are never going to have 5.1The boxes that are generally considered the best are the Panasonic’s 30/31/35 – they have the fastest menus/EPG of all of them and the 30 has the best reputation for use in fringe areas, unfortunately that model is no longer made.The current Grundig is supposed to be good, better tuner than previous models.The Amstrad 200/300 far, far better than the ill fated 100 and when they aren’t melting or crashing they perform quite well.Ones to steer clear of are all first generation ones, (Pace 2200, Ams-100, Pani-20, Grundig 200, S-750?) these are the slowest and as they are the oldest more likely to develop faults now rather than later.Good places to pick them up cheap, beside car boot sales and small ads are www.digiboxes.net and of course e-bay. Also be warned that Sky have a stolen list and any box reported stolen frantically tries to call out, AFAIK for some reason they have never deactivated a stolen box, just tried to keep it calling home so no phone connection makes that a little harder ;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 1370, member: 175235"] Actually the Sony 760 does have optical audio out enabled, what people moan about is that unlike Sky+ it is not DD5.1. The people who believe that Sky are evil gods say that Sky disabled 5.1 in the s/w to push people who want it into getting Sky+, others say it is a hardware issue and it could never support it even if Sky wanted it to. There is also the issue of licensing, to have DD5.1 all the receivers would need to have the Dolby logo on them and as they don’t, they can’t legally use it even if the hardware and software support it. Whatever you chose to believe it looks like the current Sony’s are never going to have 5.1 The boxes that are generally considered the best are the Panasonic’s 30/31/35 – they have the fastest menus/EPG of all of them and the 30 has the best reputation for use in fringe areas, unfortunately that model is no longer made. The current Grundig is supposed to be good, better tuner than previous models. The Amstrad 200/300 far, far better than the ill fated 100 and when they aren’t melting or crashing they perform quite well. Ones to steer clear of are all first generation ones, (Pace 2200, Ams-100, Pani-20, Grundig 200, S-750?) these are the slowest and as they are the oldest more likely to develop faults now rather than later. Good places to pick them up cheap, beside car boot sales and small ads are www.digiboxes.net and of course e-bay. Also be warned that Sky have a stolen list and any box reported stolen frantically tries to call out, AFAIK for some reason they have never deactivated a stolen box, just tried to keep it calling home so no phone connection makes that a little harder ;) [/QUOTE]

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