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Thread: Redlight of Death Repair

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    Thanks for taking the time to check that out.
    It squares with what I found too.
    I've made a shopping list; I'll order around 60 capacitors, and next time the box dies [which it surely will] I'll change most or all of them.
    Yeah, I'm a little bit nuts!
    Setup of a new box is not fun for me.

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    But flashing a new image fairly easy and guides on forum for doing it on a new faster box might be cheaper than loads of caps.

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    We live in southern Portugal; a few years ago, Astra launched a new bird with a narrow beam for UK channels, and since then we get zero signal on a 1.8 meter dish.
    So I switched to intelsat 907; it has just a few BBC channels, encrypted.
    No one is allowed to discuss that here, not even using the site's PM system; other sites have the info, but not specific for VIX or the VU+.

    I succeeded, but it took a silly amount of time; and I don't remember what finally did the trick.
    We rarely use it anyway. BBC has so few interesting programs, that when there is one we usually miss it.

    I ordered around 40 GBP of Panasonic capacitors. I didn't make a precise inventory, just noted the values of most of those used. I could have gotten cheaper ones.
    The processor struggles with HD signals + decrypting. if I try and freeze or timeshift, it goes to pot.

    Maybe that will be better when/ if I change all the caps?
    I'll post it here if that happens. Just in case anyone else is as stubborn as I am.

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