That picture's reminded be of the period in the 00s where TVs, digital boxes, DVD players and the likes went silver. Then by the end of the decade they were back to being black again.
Yes my cousins had Sky Digital and the smartcard had the egg logo design on it (their card didn’t get changed/replaced for years)
Silver was the design trend for most of the decade of the noughties… I remember excitement over Telewest’s TVDrive being silver, as the infamous Pace box was in that late ’90s grey. Of course, soon after, glossy black replaced silver as the trend, so the rebadged V+ Boxes were painted black instead.
I don't think the design of the Sky EPG ever changed either, apart from the logo in the corner, for SD boxes (are any of those still in use?). It was only with HD boxes they came up with a new design. So that design hung around for 15-odd years.
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I think we had a Amstrad when it was first installed but it kept freezing so we got given a Panasonic box.
I think in Alan Sugar’s autobiography, he says that Amstrad were starting to get shut out of talks about producing the then-new Sky+ HD boxes, as a result of Sugar taking his eye off the ball by working on the E-mailer. Buying Amstrad was basically Murdoch returning the favour for Sugar supporting him and producing the original equipment at Sky’s 1989 launch.