topic Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen in Sky+

Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

Tockolosh21 — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:41:25 GMT

Switch on the TV and the SKY + HD and the screen goes blue/green

Re: Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

Mark39 — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:29:43 GMT

@Tockolosh21 switch both Sky box and tv off at the plug.

Disconnect the HDMI cable from both, and either replace it with another cable if you have one, or if not, swap the ends over so that the end that was plugged into your tv is now plugged into your Sky box.

Give it for minutes, then switch both your tv and Sky box back on, and check if the problem has gone.

Re: Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

Tockolosh21 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:15:59 GMT

Did that and sadly the problem hasn't disappeared. Is there obsolescence built into the SKY +HD box? It wants me to upgrade

Re: Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

Chodley — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:35:09 GMT

In the sense that all electronics degrade over time, yes

Re: Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

Mark39 — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:41:16 GMT

@Chodley wrote:

In the sense that all electronics degrade over time, yes

@Tockolosh21 and bear in mind that even the most recent Sky+HD box is at least 10 years old.

Re: Sky + HD box giving a blue or green screen

TimmyBGood — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:12:31 GMT

@Tockolosh21 wrote:

Is there obsolescence built into the SKY +HD box? It wants me to upgrade

Sky+ HD manufacturing ceased in 2015 to make way for Sky Q, which itself stopped production several years ago in favour of Glass & Stream (released in 2021)

It's extremely unlikely you'd still be using, for example, a computer, phone or tablet of that vintage.

Regarding an 'upgrade', both Sky+ and Sky Q are products from before Sky Group became an overseas division of the Comcast Corporation after they won a bidding war against Fox and Disney in late 2018