Free Sky Sports HD Weekend

christo82 · 21-09-2011 11:41AM #1

Sky Sports is free to all Sky Customers this weekend, including the HD versions.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_7178416,00.html

Don't think it includes ESPN sadly for the Man Utd fans.

Col200sx · 21-09-2011 11:51AM

Nice one, that's the weekend sorted, cheers

martyeds · 22-09-2011 10:22AM

Yeah i think the have ESPN on freeview later on in the year, they do the same with one of the movie channels.

Paul16 · 23-09-2011 04:49AM

If i record off sky sports over the free weekend would i be able to view them on monday?

christo82 · 23-09-2011 08:46AM

No, you wouldn't be able to Paul. You can only watch recordings of channels you are currently subscribed to.

spockety · 23-09-2011 09:46AM

christo82 wrote: »

No, you wouldn't be able to Paul. You can only watch recordings of channels you are currently subscribed to.

Not sure about that. The last couple of times they had a "Free Sky Movies" weekend it was possible to record the movies and watch them for weeks after. I think the content protection is set in the stream as it's broadcast, and for playback from a recording it is the content protection parameters within the recorded stream that are checked against.

So on a free weekend, your recordings would say "Who can watch? - Everyone".

Whereas normally it might say "Who can watch? - Sky Movies subs only", so if you have a movies sub, you record, and then subsequently unsubscribe, your recorded vides would still say "Who can watch? Sky movies subs only".

John mac · 23-09-2011 10:45AM

I still have a film I recorded last time , can watch it without a problem, Its a HD movie ,
I dont have a movie or HD sub.

-=al=- · 23-09-2011 04:33PM

Added sky sports to the package yesterday and totally forgot about this!

I was only telling people about it earlier in the week, oh well

Free Sky Sports HD Weekend

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