Channel4 on Sky - Blocked Programming

piskins72

this is happening a lot lately channel 4, happens a lot in the morning times especially if Friends is on early for some reason, and earlier on this evening was jst channel surfing and before My Name is Earl it vanished, has any 1 contacted Sky about it as to what it is? jst wondering out of curiousity, had thought it was a signal problem but evidently not!!!

piskins72

i actually think its been doing it since Sky put C4 on the system earlier on this year!

norbert64

it seems as though they were mucking about with getting CH4+1 on freeview, before it went off.

Mossy Monk

piskins72 wrote:

this is happening a lot lately channel 4, happens a lot in the morning times especially if Friends is on early for some reason, and earlier on this evening was jst channel surfing and before My Name is Earl it vanished, has any 1 contacted Sky about it as to what it is? jst wondering out of curiousity, had thought it was a signal problem but evidently not!!!

What exactly is the mystery? Why would you contact Sky? I will solve this for you seeing as you didn't read the thread you posted on, Channel 4 don't have the rights to broadcast these programmes in the Republic of Ireland on satellite.

piskins72

Mossy Monk wrote:

What exactly is the mystery? Why would you contact Sky? I will solve this for you seeing as you didn't read the thread you posted on, Channel 4 don't have the rights to broadcast these programmes in the Republic of Ireland on satellite.

evidently i didnt

maximus02

What exactly is the mystery? Why would you contact Sky? I will solve this for you seeing as you didn't read the thread you posted on, Channel 4 don't have the rights to broadcast these programmes in the Republic of Ireland on satellite.

Mossy.

But why would they have blocked Cannel 4 news as it did for me last night and as stated earlier in this thread?

mustang68

maximus02 wrote:

But why would they have blocked Cannel 4 news as it did for me last night and as stated earlier in this thread?

That seems to have been, as stated earlier, because of a technical glitch. Access to the news has not yet become a copyright issue.

Mazzer

happenned me last week rang SKY and they re-setup the channel

watty

That's just scripted nonsense. They don't do any such thing. Other favorites are "Boosting the signal", or even the possibly card damaging "take out the viewing card and wipe it"

ciscokidder

I suppose if you really want the channel on digital that bad obtain a yellow house card? Then swap as necessary - but painful.

DJ_Spider

Has anyone had trouble watching T4 at the weekends? It happened to us the other day when the g/f wanted to watch charmed. She recorded it and we could then watch it! Also the other night we had recorded 2 episodes of stargate, one after another, we watched the first one, then when we went to watch the second one it wouldn't play. We could get to the start playback screen, but it wouldn't play either from the start or any time set by us. (thought might be able to start at 2 mins into it and rewind it!)

The signals were getting to the box from the remote as the lights were flashing, but the only way to get out of it was to press the epg button. We called sky and they told us to rebuild the epg list, nothing, then told us to reset the box, but we would lose any recordings we already had and any recordings set for the future.

Well it worked but we lost the episode! Lucky for us it was repeated the next day so we set it to record. But we had to redo our series recordings and wait for sky anytime to set up again.

Has anyone else had this problem? We have only had sky+ for about 6 weeks and it looks good apart from this.

Mossy Monk

What has this to do with programmes being blocked on Channel 4?

microgirl

Got Sky+ about 6 weeks or so ago now. Before getting it, I read as many of the stickies as I could before my brain melted, so it's that long ago I read this thread so might be forgetting something.

Basically, we don't get Channel $ in the mornings, and it's occasionally blocked in the evening too. I have tried explaining to my (not-young) mother that this is because of rights issues, that certain programmes are blocked because Irish channels have exclusive rights. She replies that she was able to get them with NTL, and I point out that we had NTL analogue as well as digital, so maybe it's harder to do with analogue (although to be fair, this wasn't when we were watching on the telly - we had complete Ch4 when watching through the digital box too, so I don't know)

She is adamant however that it's specific times, rather than specific programmes, that are being blocked. As in, an hour later both Ch4 and Ch4+1 are available, and the programmes she couldn't see on Ch4 between, say, 8-9am she can see on Ch4+1 between 9-10am, so how it could it be specific programmes blocked for rights issues.

I have no answer to this.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me? Not that it'll probably make much difference. She wants me to get on to Sky and complain that we can't see all of Ch4 and to fix it, regardless of me telling her that that's simply the way it is. (Oh, and no, ordinarily just watching said programmes at 9-10am instead of earlier doesn't work, as 8-9am, while having breakfast, is when she watches telly. Too many other commitments during the day)

Much thanks.

Arthur Ryan

Somtimes removal of sky card, wiping of same and re-insertion gets over this loss of pic.

CRAIG07

if i got a ftv viewing card from uk would this stop the channel4 being blocked ?

byte

CRAIG07 wrote: »

if i got a ftv viewing card from uk would this stop the channel4 being blocked ?

It would, however you'd need to swap cards whenever you want to watch unblocked version of C4, and allow EPG to reload with differing channel listings each time.

CRAIG07

just went to watch ''with out a trace'' on c4 and i get a message saying ''this program is not available'' ? are all non channel4 non home grown shows blocked

matikala@gmail.

Hi!

About Channel 4 ,here and there is rumours,that it will come up as Free To Air Channel. Being honest - I heard this rumour sence 2006 spring .
Anybody have more useful information about it ?


Ciao!

Our man in Havana

I am amazed that Sky in their adverts for the ROI, they do not have to declare that it is a restricted version of C4 that you will receive.

celticfc

matikala@gmail. wrote: »

Hi!

About Channel 4 ,here and there is rumours,that it will come up as Free To Air Channel. Being honest - I heard this rumour sence 2006 spring .
Anybody have more useful information about it ?


Ciao!

Yes, it is the most likely outcome now especially with Freesats imminent launch, It is widely believed it is in Channel 4's interest to become FTA.

The only barrier to this is the current encryption contract they have with Sky, which expires in the summer. (It is rumored to be in August)

Rick_

Well, it's available FTA now, so tune it in and never worry about rights and blocked programming again!

b318isp

Paddy C wrote: »

Well, it's available FTA now, so tune it in and never worry about rights and blocked programming again!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055273526

MACHEAD

Paddy C wrote: »

Well, it's available FTA now, so tune it in and never worry about rights and blocked programming again!

Have'nt actually tried looking for 4 in 'add channels' yet but even if it is there for a period of time it'll only be available as an 'other channel'. So as it does'nt appear on the EPG those of us with Sky+ wont be able to record from it untill it goes fully FTA on the EPG

Pat Gleeson

Tuning details: Astra 2D (Same as BBC /ITV)

Freq: 10.729GHz Polarity: V Symbol Rate: 22.0 FEC: 5/6

Channel Name: 8350 Currently showing Channel 4

I have confirmed this channel is indeed FTA on a Sky box by removing the Sky card

siobhan.murphy

I rang sky on sunday to say I couldnt get channel 6,or channel 4+1 it used to work,they said they would have to send out an engineer at 100 quid,I told them I didnt miss it that much and not to bother!
but now all my +1 channels are gone,should I send hubby up the ladder to twist the dish?

bazzer

siobhan.murphy wrote: »

should I send hubby up the ladder to twist the dish?

My god, no! Just unplug your box from the mains for a few minutes, then plug it back in, leave it for another minute, then switch on and let it re-load itself. That usually sorts any missing channels.

siobhan.murphy

bazzer wrote: »

My god, no! Just unplug your box from the mains for a few minutes, then plug it back in, leave it for another minute, then switch on and let it re-load itself. That usually sorts any missing channels.

no joy I'm afraid!
unplugging the box I mean!

Tony

siobhan.murphy wrote: »

no joy I'm afraid!
unplugging the box I mean!

Possibly poor cabling or lnb fault, is there a local cheaper engineer you could call?

ASIL1983

I thought i was the only one with this problem with ch4. I cant understand why i can watch something like Friends in the afternoon but not in the morning??

Omnipresence

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Can't watch "The Omen" on Ch4 right now...

Stupid blue screen...

:mad: