Using Sky Plus Box with no subscription?

Capt'n Midnight

Toplink wrote: »

Can you arrange a payment to Sky specifically for the use of the sky plus recording facility?

It appears from some of the UK sites that 10 pounds a month payment to sky and you still record.

In the UK you can buy an FTV card (if you have a valid TV license), even then I'm not sure if you'd need a phone line since we are talking UK subscriptions to avail of that service. (and no you can't use a UK card on an Irish phone line)



A Setanta card is an Irish card with no subscription with it
You get BBC, BUT no Irish channels or ITV or C4 or C5 as those FTA channels aren't on the Irish EPG and the Irish channels aren't available without a subscription

The first viewable channel is 134 S4C
the next are 141 BBC1, 142 BBC2
Then you get CBS and Pick and Film4
BBC2 is now at 210
Yes it's possible to get UTV & co through other channels, but recording them is a different kettle of fish

*most in the sense of the most watched channels apart from BBC

Oh yeah , you can't record Setanta on a Sky+ box unless you have a subscription or something



Better off saving your tenner and buying a Freesat box that can record all the main UK networks http://www.freesat.co.uk/products/freesat-box-range

http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels

brandonviewer

those freesat boxes sound like the business.
can you access the bbc and itv players on them?

ads20101

brandonviewer wrote: »

those freesat boxes sound like the business.
can you access the bbc and itv players on them?

Def can on the humax foxsat but you will need to change your ip add - easiest with a proxy

petersago

silly woman. Your box at the top of the stairs is not conected to the dish but with multi room from yourmain box downstairs. If you want you box upstairs to work on the tele then you are going to have to get a lead from the dish to this box and then it will work independently from the main box downstairs Once you cancel the subscribtion to sky there is no way on earth the recordings that you have made on the main box can be seen. You need a cable from the dish for your main box downstairs and a seperate cable from the dish to work the second box upstairs. If you do this then it will work on its own like the one downstairs but to see the recordings that ou have on the hdd then you will need a subscription from sky

petersago

all the free to air channels that you can get on you sky + hd box are here. I know cos i have a sky hd + box and i get them all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E

Johnboy1951

petersago wrote: »

all the free to air channels that you can get on you sky + hd box are here. I know cos i have a sky hd + box and i get them all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E

This is a list of all of the free-to-air channels that are currently available via satellite from SES Astra satellites (Astra 2E/2F/2G) located at 28.2 °E.

That lists Channel 4, 4+1, E4 as having Irish versions encrypted ...... I do not understand that.
They are certainly FTA here! (not encrypted) .... including Channel 4 HD.

icdg

We don't drag up old threads. In addition petersago gets a 48 hour ban for the abusive comment