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Accessing Sky Recodings without a Viewing Card

sheero79 · 2016-07-13 09:23:04

Hi there, I am getting sky Q installed on Friday and I have been informed that I will not be able to access the recordings on my old sky box as the viewing card will be put in the new sky q box....I have any amount of cartoons saved on the existing box that the kids love. Is there any way I can still access these without a…

13-07-2016 9:23am

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sheero79

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Hi there,

I am getting sky Q installed on Friday and I have been informed that I will not be able to access the recordings on my old sky box as the viewing card will be put in the new sky q box....I have any amount of cartoons saved on the existing box that the kids love. Is there any way I can still access these without a viewing card.....any help is much appreciated?

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#2 13-07-2016 10:03am

The Cush

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sheero79 wrote: »

Is there any way I can still access these without a viewing card

No, active viewing card required.

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#3 13-07-2016 1:22pm

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Can you not transfer these onto a VCR/PVR and store them there for kids to watch when they want?

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#4 13-07-2016 1:54pm

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Digifriendly wrote: »

Can you not transfer these onto a VCR/PVR and store them there for kids to watch when they want?

That could be done by playing and recording each in 'real time', as I understand it.

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#5 13-07-2016 3:54pm

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With the huge amounts in the kids section of SKY Box sets surely you could download most of them?

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