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Using sky+ hd box for free sat

chris_elevatechris_elevate Posts: 585
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How could I use an old box in a room that has cables coming from the dish? Is it possible to receive the free channels and pause, rewind and record?

Thanks

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    KesterKKesterK Posts: 3,485
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    chris_elevate wrote: »
    How could I use an old box in a room that has cables coming from the dish? Is it possible to receive the free channels and pause, rewind and record?

    Thanks

    You can watch free to air channels, but would need a Sky+ subscription to use the live pause and recording features.
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    chrisjrchrisjr Posts: 33,282
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    Unless you hand over some of your hard earned to Sky their boxes have no recording capabilities.

    They can only receive the free channels. If you want record capabilities then you either have to take out a bare minimum recording sub with Sky or buy a Freesat recorder.
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    drcarreradrcarrera Posts: 60
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    I thought this but I've got two sky boxes - one on a subscription and the other not, and the non-subscribed box can still record. I did used to have multi-room but cancelled it over a year ago so this could be why mine "works" but if Sky have somehow messed up my subscription it's strange it can record , live pause etc but can't receive any subscription channels.

    So perhaps the answer is to subscribe to multi-room then cancel!
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    Nigel GoodwinNigel Goodwin Posts: 58,522
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    drcarrera wrote: »
    I thought this but I've got two sky boxes - one on a subscription and the other not, and the non-subscribed box can still record. I did used to have multi-room but cancelled it over a year ago so this could be why mine "works" but if Sky have somehow messed up my subscription it's strange it can record , live pause etc but can't receive any subscription channels.

    So perhaps the answer is to subscribe to multi-room then cancel!

    No, you're just lucky that the old box/card didn't get disabled - if it was disconnected when Sky sent the signal to it then it 'may' have missed the signal disabling it.

    So cancelling then disconnecting the box (for an unknown period) 'may' be one thing to try - but no one knows when they send the signal, how many times they send it, or how long they might send it for.
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