A few times a week our Sky Plus box is dying with a message to say 'There is a technical fault on this channel, please try later' (or words to that effect).
I have been doing the full system reset up till now but that takes a few minutes. I found a quicker way to do it today:
- enter service menu (Services, 4, 0, 1, Select)
- Sky+ Planner Rebuild
- wait a minute or two while the screen goes black and it feigns death
- enjoy more big brother
It still takes a minute or two but you can do it from the remote (e.g. laying in bed), you don't have to pull the power.


Thanks for the advice on this page, thought I might have to get a new digibox!:)