Recently my originally first generation Sky digibox packed up – well it started to terminally overheat. If you call Sky then they will send out an engineer for £65 and look at the problem and ...

9-12 volts (high-to-12v) when: - digibox is out of standby, - scart control setting is on, - picture format setting is '4:3' (or set to '16:9' but digibox is outputting a 4:3 programme) ...

So weird it must be true? Some stories are so utterly ridiculous that you couldn't make them up. And we're hoping for the sake of our editorial credibility that the tale we're about to relate is one ...