Hi,

I have recently purchased the Samsung HD 42" Plasma along with the Sony DSTHD500 and HDMI cable. Within a day of using the STB it started to freeze. The freezing is not consitent with any 1 channel. I took the STB back to the retailer who replaced it however my new box is doing the same thing.

The retailer did a fault check on the original box and it came back negative. They seem to think I could be getting too much signal strength to the box and it is freezing and has now gone into a safe type of mode becuase of this. I am not confident it is related to the signal strength becuase when I plug the arial directly into the Plasma the reception is poor.

If anyone has experienced something similar or has any suggestions I would loved to hear them.

Bryan Marsh

The Sony is probably one of the worst set top boxes on the market.

Return it and get something decent such as Ausid or Teac

I bought the sony DSTHD500 at the begining of November. After playing it for about 2hours, the tv lost picture and sound, nothing is working I had to unplugged the power. I happened 3 times in 3 days. Returned the unit to where I bought it from and got a replacement unit. Again the same problem occurred I had to get my money back. Now I am looking for another HD STB with an HDMI but have not found any yet. heard that Pioneer will release a new HD STB with HDMI later in the year. Will see.

I really don't get what Sony did to their newer STBs.. the DSTHD100 was, IMO, perfect.