sky hd box doesnt show free to air

firestarter51 · 30-12-2013 5:21pm #1

my sky card packed up xmas eve so while waiting for a new card i tried to access the free to air stations like i have in my bedroom, nothing there ?
so when i cancel my sky will i have to get an old box ?

Sir Arthur Daley · 30-12-2013 5:24pm

You could get an old box or get a freesat box.

firestarter51 · 30-12-2013 5:28pm

ffs no wonder sky were so keen to give out free boxes

GoodisonPark · 30-12-2013 5:29pm

Remove the card . Unplug box at the mains , wait 1 min , plug box back in without a card when it boots up you will have the UK EPG listings and can view the free channels from that.

snaps · 30-12-2013 5:31pm

GoodisonPark wrote: »

Remove the card . Unplug box at the mains , wait 1 min , plug box back in without a card when it boots up you will have the UK EPG listings and can view the free channels from that.

Not on HD boxes, software updates stopped this. Only on old HD boxes and SD boxes.

firestarter51 · 30-12-2013 5:40pm

GoodisonPark wrote: »

Remove the card . Unplug box at the mains , wait 1 min , plug box back in without a card when it boots up you will have the UK EPG listings and can view the free channels from that.

no it doesnt

swoofer · 31-12-2013 9:43am

you need access to a uk free to view card, that will get all FTA, take card out and it still works.

firestarter51 · 31-12-2013 12:13pm

GBCULLEN wrote: »

you need access to a uk free to view card, that will get all FTA, take card out and it still works.

thanks, i didnt even think of that and im sure ive done it before on older boxes
must be getting old

:D:D:D:D:D

muffler · 31-12-2013 1:07pm

firestarter51 wrote: »

must be getting old :D:D:D:D:D

FYP

crackcrack30 · 01-01-2014 5:05pm

How much for a sky ftv card (posted).....

GoodisonPark · 01-01-2014 6:24pm

Setanta were giving them for free a while ago.
Not sure if they still do or not.

Kristopherus · 02-01-2014 1:39am

crackcrack30 wrote: »

How much for a sky ftv card (posted).....

You need a UK address to get then from Sky. That is if they even still supply them.

seagoat · 07-01-2014 2:20pm

Why don't you just retune your box? There's a sticky on the front page here telling you how to do it - my sub ran out today and I retuned it, no problem.

swoofer · 07-01-2014 2:52pm

seagoat is your box the latest sky hd+?

seagoat · 07-01-2014 6:49pm

I got it two years ago? It's black, says Sky+HD on it.

swoofer · 07-01-2014 7:07pm

that explains it, the later ones have been knobbled by sky but the uk card trick works.

seagoat · 07-01-2014 7:28pm

Looks like I got in just in time then! Honestly, how petty are they? It's not as if they take the box back when you cancel.

08-01-2014 2:59pm

So the Sky+HD box won't show any channels at all if the sub is deactivated, but the workaround is to manually tune in all the FTV channels via other channels menu?

And you'll need to tune them all in again if the box loses power?

seagoat · 08-01-2014 3:06pm

That's what I did, but apparently it doesn't work on newer boxes.

swoofer · 08-01-2014 5:04pm

No the best workround is to use a UK ftv card, if one has one and apparently even the old blue card will work. I am getting an DRX890 tomorrow for a friend so can check that and see if a reboot still works. The DRX 890 is quite old.

codie · 08-01-2014 6:08pm

I am using an old blue/yellow house card in my sky hd box.Got it in ebay must of been 5 or 6 years ago.

steveon · 09-01-2014 12:34am

Not all old UK blue cards will work, fine if its been activated in the past...but some are not deactivated so best if possible obtain a white one....and if you are really lucky rare but some do actually have skyplus features still active on them.

Kristopherus · 09-01-2014 5:09pm

I found that these old cards will re-activate if left in the Sky box overnight/24 hours.

cranefly · 09-01-2014 7:56pm

I bought a sky+hd box from adverts to use as a free to air box and was lucky enough to get the uk free to view card from setanta, it just meant i had the english epg on my box rather than rte1 as channel 1. i put all my channels on favourites so i did not really need it, but i still have it in the box. Recently i have noticed that when i turn on my sky box i cant get the free channels to show up as they did before, it keeps saying," no listings available" and when i press say 101 for bbc1 nothing shows up only a blue screen, i found a way around this by going into" other channels" and then high lighting a free to view channel in their, and then my channel shows up, and that gets the rest of them going also, hope this helps.

sky hd box doesnt show free to air

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