Mine keep dying on one of my Digihome boxes, as it's two years old,
and a daily unplugging sorts it out. However, then it goes into a
prolonged software/EPG update that I have to manually stop.
Get a Humax. Never had any problems with their machines. Super
reliable.
Oh, and there's been no problem with subs in Norfolk. I record
everything on to the Humax hard-disc with subs and recordings from the
last week are all OK.
The only one I haven't checked was C4's rebroadcasting of The
Cicerones, the Robert Aickman ghost story.