Sky Sports Free Weekend.

Cantona's Collars

Sky are having a "Weekend Pass" this coming Friday 20nd July @ 6am to Sunday 22nd @ Midnight.

This means Sky customers will get ALL Sky Sports channels including the F1 channel free for the weekend.Not sure about ESPN but I assume that will be included as it's free to Sky Sports subscribers here in Ireland.

Morrisseeee

Friday 22nd July to Sunday 24th

date ??

I'm guessing you just got the dates wrong, it seems it is free this weekend,
but that's probably because there's nothing on !! doh !

John mac

20th to 22nd

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/7178416/Free-weekend

abouttobebanned

BBC have the rights to the open golf. No football. No anything. What's the point?

Storm 10

abouttobebanned wrote: »

BBC have the rights to the open golf. No football. No anything. What's the point?

Thats why its free, trying to entice new customers when all they have next weekend is the FI Race.

NIMAN

Can you get this on a Humax Foxsat?

John mac

abouttobebanned wrote: »

BBC have the rights to the open golf. No football. No anything. What's the point?

cricket..

curryman

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thats why its free, trying to entice new customers when all they have next weekend is the FI Race.

Going by sky's web site you can only view the f1 channel in the uk hope this is not the case

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/7178416/Free-weekend

* Sky Sports F1 channel only available to Sky TV customers and Virgin Media customers in the UK

Digifriendly

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thats why its free, trying to entice new customers when all they have next weekend is the FI Race.

There is Super 15 Rugby union, Super Rugby League and Test Cricket. So FI is not all they have.

OldRio

yc

abouttobebanned wrote: »

BBC have the rights to the open golf. No football. No anything. What's the point?

Well I for one will enjoy the Rugby and the Show Jumping and a soccer free weekend.
Lovely

Cantona's Collars

NIMAN wrote: »

Can you get this on a Humax Foxsat?

You need to be a Sky subscriber.

winston_1

zerks wrote: »

You need to be a Sky subscriber.

So it is NOT FREE. You cannot get it without paying money to Sky.

MrStuffins

winston_1 wrote: »

So it is NOT FREE. You cannot get it without paying money to Sky.

Come on now. You knew what he meant!

winston_1

MrStuffins wrote: »

Come on now. You knew what he meant!

Did I?
He certainly did not know what "free" means.

MrStuffins

winston_1 wrote: »

Did I?
He certainly did not know what "free" means.

You should've known anyway.

And now you've learned something.

martyeds

They normally offer this in Sept or Oct time. Usually a weekend where the live football games do not feature many of top sides. Its good for watching NFL though.

dublinbusdude

Question: If I set to record some programmes on the free weekend, will they be there on Tues to watch?

muffler

dublinbusdude wrote: »

Question: If I set to record some programmes on the free weekend, will they be there on Tues to watch?

The good news is......they will

The bad news is you will have to subscribe to the sports package to watch them

John mac

not necessarily :

last time it was on i recorded some NFL games in hd and was able to watch them 3 weeks later. (no hd pack or sports pack)

muffler

I think it was about 18 months ago when Sky had a free movies weekend. A lot of people had their sky box hard drives in overtime trying to take advantage but it was all in vain

I honestly cant see them allowing recorded content to be viewed after the event. Even when you downgrade a package you loose out.

John mac

i remember that too, i recorded Caroline it was on the box for over a year and still viewable.

dublinbusdude

So I can try it and see what I get back from Tipperary on Tuesday

muffler

John mac wrote: »

i remember that too, i recorded Caroline it was on the box for over a year and still viewable.

Are you sure Sky weren't still taking money from your bank account without you knowing it?

A lot of family and friends (including myself) recorded some movies at the time but couldn't watch them after the weekend

John mac

most definitely just have the almost basic eur 32 per month pack.
I dont have even the hd pack. (wont pay extra for it )

muffler

I'm paying them €44.50 a month at the moment. €29.50 of that is for the basic pack with sports and the €15 for multi-room (2 teenagers to cater for ) but my half price subscription expires on 18 August so I have to ring them tomorrow and give them 31 days notice of cancelling.

It will be interesting to see if they make me another offer or not.

Doodah7

muffler wrote: »

I'm paying them €44.50 a month at the moment. €29.50 of that is for the basic pack with sports and the €15 for multi-room (2 teenagers to cater for ) but my half price subscription expires on 18 August so I have to ring them tomorrow and give them 31 days notice of cancelling.

It will be interesting to see if they make me another offer or not.

Muffler: What identification do they ask for when you contact them? Customer number or sky card no?

muffler

tallpaul wrote: »

Muffler: What identification do they ask for when you contact them? Customer number or sky card no?

Either card or account number will be asked for but which ever one you have handy will do.

Anytime I have rang in the past I was asked for the card or account number together with confirming my address, mother's maiden name and first 2 letters of password (if you have a password on your account)

OldRio

Just a heads up to everyone.
Free Sky Sports including F1 this weekend.
ESPN and ESPN America are not included.

Gerry Wicklow

OldRio wrote: »

Just a heads up to everyone.
Free Sky Sports including F1 this weekend.
ESPN and ESPN America are not included.

Ehhh what do you think this thread is about?

OldRio

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Ehhh what do you think this thread is about?

It was on page 2.
Some people might have missed the original post or thought ESPN was in the offer and F1 was not included.

Just trying to be helpful.

Digifriendly

OldRio wrote: »

It was on page 2.
Some people might have missed the original post or thought ESPN was in the offer and F1 was not included.

Just trying to be helpful.

What do you mean page 2? It was on Page 1. Can't see how people would think ESPN was in the offer as title thread is clear and Sky have done this before with no ESPN.

OldRio

Digifriendly wrote: »

What do you mean page 2? It was on Page 1.

No it was on page 2.
Do you think I'm lying ?
For what benefit ?

I bumped it up because people might have missed it.

What part of 'just trying to help' don't you understand?

Digifriendly

OldRio wrote: »

Digifriendly wrote: »

What do you mean page 2? It was on Page 1.

No it was on page 2.
Do you think I'm lying ?
For what benefit ?

I bumped it up because people might have missed it.

What part of 'just trying to help' don't you understand?

Apologies and I certainly don't think you're lying but (maybe I'm thick!) still can't understand what you mean by being on page 2 when title of thread is on page 1 and is a post 2 days later really bumping up a thread?

Cantona's Collars

Chill guys,there's only 3 hours of free Sky Sports left.Stick on the darts & relax.:)

Johnny Johnson

Who cares

icdg

Guys, contribute something to the thread or don't. Bumps are frowned upon around here.

dublinbusdude

My sister taped WWE on Sky Sports on the Free weekend and it worked today when we got back from Nenagh