Wales V Ireland Was In Hd Without Sub!

Widescreen · 19-11-2007 12:12pm #1

I assumed some eagle eyed person would have posted this on Saturday and I was too lazy to switch on my PC to go it-sorry! The Wales v Ireland game was in HD on Saturday for ordinary skysports subscribers. It was on SS3 with the red button so when prompted I pressed it in hope and lo and behold it wasn't blocked. Maybe Sky should have a couple of Prem League matches in HD to encourage people to subscribe. My own view however, is if you never see HD you won't miss it.

dkane · 19-11-2007 12:47pm

How were you able to watch it without a Sky HD box?

Mossy Monk · 19-11-2007 12:50pm

If you had Sky Sports 3 and a Sky HD box then surely you would have had it in HD anyway? I think I am missing something.

Hobart · 19-11-2007 12:54pm

Mossy Monk wrote: »

If you had Sky Sports 3 and a Sky HD box then surely you would have had it in HD anyway? I think I am missing something.

Not true, you can have SS3 and a sky HD box, and still be unable to view it in HD. Not all sky sports events are broadcast in HD.

dkane · 19-11-2007 12:59pm

Mossy Monk wrote: »

If you had Sky Sports 3 and a Sky HD box then surely you would have had it in HD anyway? I think I am missing something.

Exactly.

I'm only guessing here but I think that the op probably pressed the red button on his standard Sky box and the game popped up. This would still be in SD though. Special hardware needed to receive HD broadcast.

clansman · 19-11-2007 3:09pm

HD without a HD box.... now that would make you a lot of money. just hit red. and green for a cup of coffee..

Hobart · 19-11-2007 3:21pm

dkane wrote: »

Exactly.

I'm only guessing here but I think that the op probably pressed the red button on his standard Sky box and the game popped up. This would still be in SD though. Special hardware needed to receive HD broadcast.

The way I'm reading MM's post is that if you have a HD box and SS3 that you get each game in HD anyway, which you do not.

Mossy Monk · 19-11-2007 3:54pm

Hobart wrote: »

Not true, you can have SS3 and a sky HD box, and still be unable to view it in HD. Not all sky sports events are broadcast in HD.

I suppose you could have a Sky HD box and not subscribe to HD. What you said about not all sports events being in HD. Nobody said they were.

dkane · 19-11-2007 4:41pm

Hobart - The game on Saturday was broadcast on SS3 in SD, in the corner of the screen there was a red dot with HD written under it. This displayed on normal Sky subs as well as HD subs. (I was watching on a normal Sky Sports sub and I saw it)
I think the confusion is that the op, on seeing this red dot pressed the red button, not expecting it to work, but when he got a picture he presumed it was HD, of course it wasn't as he would need a HD decoder to view it.
Mossy is not suggesting that everything on SS is broadcast in HD, but if you have Sky HD and Sky Sports you can view everything that is broadcast in HD on Sky Sports.

Widescreen · 20-11-2007 8:55am

Sorry folks, busy yesterday. I DO have a Sky HD box which I got recently. I don't subscribe to any of the HD Channels yet. I saw the match in HD...

clansman · 20-11-2007 9:02am

Widescreen wrote: »

Sorry folks, busy yesterday. I DO have a Sky HD box which I got recently. I don't subscribe to any of the HD Channels yet. I saw the match in HD...

well thats that cleared up.
so u can get a hd box of sky(for about 150 i think-not sure) but not sub to the hd channels and still pay the normal rate.. true? iam to sure how sky are workin the HD...

Mossy Monk · 20-11-2007 9:03am

Yes, there is no obligation to subscribe to HD channels if you have a Sky HD box.

Hobart · 20-11-2007 9:04am

dkane wrote: »

Hobart - The game on Saturday was broadcast on SS3 in SD, in the corner of the screen there was a red dot with HD written under it. This displayed on normal Sky subs as well as HD subs. (I was watching on a normal Sky Sports sub and I saw it)
I think the confusion is that the op, on seeing this red dot pressed the red button, not expecting it to work, but when he got a picture he presumed it was HD, of course it wasn't as he would need a HD decoder to view it.
Mossy is not suggesting that everything on SS is broadcast in HD, but if you have Sky HD and Sky Sports you can view everything that is broadcast in HD on Sky Sports.

I appreciate that, in-fact I watched the match in HD myself. MM said "If you had Sky Sports 3 and a Sky HD box then surely you would have had it in HD anyway" which is not true as SS3 on a HD box would give you the match in SD. The match was actually brodcast in HD on SSXtra HD not SS3.

You would have had to press red to view it in HD and, as he later pointed out, not all HD boxes have a HD sub.

dkane · 20-11-2007 11:35am

Apologies Widescreen, I was of the assumption that if you had a Sky HD box and a Sky Sports Sub that you had Sky Sports HD automatically, did not know you could have HD box and normal SS sub without HD.

Widescreen · 20-11-2007 12:30pm

dkane wrote: »

Apologies Widescreen, I was of the assumption that if you had a Sky HD box and a Sky Sports Sub that you had Sky Sports HD automatically, did not know you could have HD box and normal SS sub without HD.

Actually ,when I was getting my card switched to the HD box they(Sky)did all they could to railroad me to the HD Sub. I had been told when I bought the box to just tell Sky that I did not yet have a HD Ready TV and was just getting organised by getting the digibox first!

silverski · 24-11-2007 11:34pm

Widescreen wrote: »

Actually ,when I was getting my card switched to the HD box they(Sky)did all they could to railroad me to the HD Sub. I had been told when I bought the box to just tell Sky that I did not yet have a HD Ready TV and was just getting organised by getting the digibox first!

Hey there Widescreen,

Could you let me know where you sourced the HD box and what was the cost.

Regards
Silverski

Widescreen · 26-11-2007 9:24am

silverski wrote: »

Hey there Widescreen,

Could you let me know where you sourced the HD box and what was the cost.

Regards
Silverski

I got the box on eBay about a month ago from a location in the UK. This is the link but I dont think it gives much detail at moment. I have a phone number which I can supply if you send me a PM. Cost worked out around €310.Roughly equivalent to the recent Sky deal in Ireland but without installation cost,hassle etc.c.. so far so good with the box...
http://stores.ebay.ie/UKSATELLITE
Cheers

spockety · 26-11-2007 10:26am

all eBay boxes have gone up from ~169 pounds, to ~225 pounds.

Apparently Sky increased the price of the box to their dealer network, hence the increase!

Widescreen · 26-11-2007 2:37pm

spockety wrote: »

all eBay boxes have gone up from ~169 pounds, to ~225 pounds.

Apparently Sky increased the price of the box to their dealer network, hence the increase!

I paid the £169 but unfortunately had to pay £45 for freight costs but it still represented good value and avoided the Sky install charge and phone line hassle as well.

silverski · 26-11-2007 10:11pm

Widescreen wrote: »

I got the box on eBay about a month ago from a location in the UK. This is the link but I dont think it gives much detail at moment. I have a phone number which I can supply if you send me a PM. Cost worked out around €310.Roughly equivalent to the recent Sky deal in Ireland but without installation cost,hassle etc.c.. so far so good with the box...
http://stores.ebay.ie/UKSATELLITE
Cheers

HI Widescreen,

Thanks for the reply, That supplier is away at present. Will search around ebay to see what I can find

Regards
Silverski

Wales V Ireland Was In Hd Without Sub!

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