Numbers in bottom corner of screen?

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• SteveMartin Posts: 1,990

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  04/11/12 - 16:18 #2

  TomGrant wrote: »

  Just watching the Liverpool - Newcastle game on Virgin Media, Sky Sports 1. Theres a long 10 or so digit number in the bottom left corner... whats that about?
  
  Similar thing to the pint glass being on there in commercially licensed Sky pubs??
  
  Edit: It's gone now!

  
  It may have something to do with tracking down illegal streams of the matches.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 383

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  04/11/12 - 16:28 #3

  It's back on : 113901****

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• c3pod4qp Posts: 630

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  04/11/12 - 16:35 #4

  Watching on Sky, nine digits have just disappeared from the top right of the screen, having been there for a few minutes. They were just above the Sky Sports 1 HD DOG.
  
  More information is available here.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 44

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  04/11/12 - 16:51 #5

  that is your sky viewing card number

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• Ramsay Ladders Posts: 3,017

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  04/11/12 - 16:54 #6

  scorpiofootiema wrote: »

  that is your sky viewing card number

  
  That was what I believed too but the number thats been appearing on my screen lately is totally different to my viewing card number.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 383

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  04/11/12 - 17:34 #7

  I wouldn't mind so much if it was top right above the Sky HD bug, but this is bottom left and overlaps with the on screen graphics - it's quite intrusive - and the game just got interesting !
  
  regards
  
  Brian

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• popeye13 Posts: 8,573

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  04/11/12 - 18:05 #8

  Its not your viewing card number.
  Its a reference number to your account so that if you are streaming the game online, they can find who the uploader is and cut you off and so on.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,098

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  04/11/12 - 19:25 #9

  Very clever. Can't whoever's streaming just cut off that part of the screen though?

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• RedSnapper Posts: 2,569

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  04/11/12 - 19:28 #10

  If you change channel and then back again - it goes.

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• TIVO_YORK99 Posts: 317

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  04/11/12 - 19:43 #11

  RedSnapper wrote: »

  If you change channel and then back again - it goes.

  
  Yes, but then it will suddenly re-appear again randomly. I agree, it is very clever.

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