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Sky removing RF2 voltage? (Merged)
So, who knows anything? Apparently the Autumn firmware release will remove the voltage from RF2 outputs, immediately rendering magic eyes useless without further expense by users in inserting a power supply to make them work. There is even a suggestion that they may remove functionality for Magic Eye signals completely, therefore rendering them totally useless.
Sounds like an attempt to force people into buying extra boxes, using multiroom, or even the groundwork for planner sharing, but that would still require users to buy extra boxes. Seems those of us who are happy to be watching one programme at a time, but on different TV's at different times of the day aren't what Sky want?
Sounds like an attempt to force people into buying extra boxes, using multiroom, or even the groundwork for planner sharing, but that would still require users to buy extra boxes. Seems those of us who are happy to be watching one programme at a time, but on different TV's at different times of the day aren't what Sky want?
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but what's his source?
As Sky have stopped providing magic eyes (with CS's even denying they ever existed), it seems quite plausible that they 'may' remove magic eye capability (and indeed the RF modulator) from new PVR's in the future, just as they have from the multi-room only non-PVR box.
Unless its purely so they can remove hardware on the next gen boxes for whatever reason (surely the cost saving isn't *that* much)..
http://www.satcure.co.uk/reviews/satcure_blog_179.htm
for me, that is simply conjecture.
there is nothing there to back up the claim at all.
how convenient though that the article links to a device that will solve the problem, which can be bought from the same place... suspicious am i ???
It would be really bonkers to simply disable the 9V power function, but still allow it to receive remote commands. so my guess is that IF they remove it, it won't work at all even with an external supply.
But why waste effort removing working code? I can only think it's the "lowest common denominator" problem, i.e not all boxes have RF out 2 now, so remove that function from all of them so they can all run identical software?
I'm guessing it probably was/is an issue with a beta release which has resulted in this misinformation.
Yes you are, that's not the way he does business.
I think it's simply a completely and utterly wrong suggestion, and he put the wrong date on - should have been April 1st.
The only current boxes without RF2 are the non-PVR multi-room boxes (because they had no need or use for it), so it would be incredibly stupid to cripple every other box to match it.
Perhaps they should disable the HDD's in the PVR's as the multi-room box doesn't have one?
There is no crippling update. There's just no update for them ever again which is where the problem with Thomson boxes lies.
At some point, some services you receive as part of your subscription will be lost on Thomson boxes.
I completely agree.
I hope they turn on the USB ports, at least just for power.
Why? Any Sky fitted magic eye is way out of warranty. I haven't heard the news the OP is posting but would certainly expect the next generation HD PVR to come without any RF connections
They are.
New boxes not having them fair enough, but there is no point in disabling features in existing boxes.
Yeah they may be out of warranty, but it wouldn't be a fault if they disabled the feature.
As I said above, that sounds quite plausible - with the shared planner presumably due 'any time'.
But disabling RF2 on 20 million odd existing boxes isn't going to happen, apart from magic eyes stopping working it would disable huge number of customers aerial systems, a great many of which are powered from Sky boxes,
I don't think they will disable them, but even removing the 9v wouldn't render it useless for the aerial as it would still work like RF1 does. Certainly nothing has been mentioned in house regarding disabling the 9v.