[setch]

I called NTL tech support yesterday in a last ditch attempt to get my 3 week old problem sorted. The techie told me that he knew what the issue was and would send a signal to wipe out the information from the STB and reload it. I was prepared to keep NTL Digital TV and cancel the Sky install if NTL worked when I got home from work (better the devil you know). But alas it was still a dead box other than the basic free channels.

The Sky engineer called me at 09:00 this morning to give me an approximate ETA. He arrived as promised and was more than helpful when faced with what was probably a slightly more complex install than he had anticipated.

After playing around with the new Sky+ box for the past couple of hours, I have to admit that dropping the NTL package was probably the correct decision. You get a shed load more channels than NTL supply and a lot of them are for the kids.

Anyway I am glad this saga is over, the kids are now happy which in turn makes the wife happy. So I'm over the moon, it's no longer my fault and I am flavour of the month for short while.

I'm also wise enough to know that Sky could turn out to be just as bad as NTL, but several of my friends have made the switch over the last year and none have had any issues as yet.

Setch