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Old 12-06-2012, 18:30   #126
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Pick TV & Pick TV+1 FTA here again.
There must be something going on at Sky Osterley with these services being in the clear. I had a sneaky suspicion it might have gone FTA again. Lets see if it lasts or not.
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Old 12-06-2012, 18:34   #127
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There must be something going on at Sky Osterley with these services being in the clear. I had a sneaky suspicion it might have gone FTA again. Lets see if it lasts or not.
Very strange indeed..
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Old 12-06-2012, 18:36   #128
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There must be something going on at Sky Osterley with these services being in the clear. I had a sneaky suspicion it might have gone FTA again. Lets see if it lasts or not.
You mean the boss tied up in broom cupboard sort of goings on? I hope someone "accidentally" unencrypts Sky Atlantic HD.
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Old 12-06-2012, 18:43   #129
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Hurrah!
I know people complain about the offerings on Pick TV and Challenge but it's nice to see them free to air!

Watching Family Fortunes with Max Bygraves looks so 70's though it was 1983...!
I'm still waiting for them to show the infamous "turkey" episode!
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Old 13-06-2012, 01:05   #130
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[quote=Paddy C;58791576]I don't wanna say "I told you so
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Old 13-06-2012, 01:15   #131
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Challenge & PickTV FTA
Challenge and Pick TV are still FTA for me and their + channels

All we now need is for Dave, Yesterday, Really and Quest plus their + channels to go FTA as well as Sky Atlantic and Dave HD and Sky Atlantic HD
along with ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD
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Old 13-06-2012, 01:36   #132
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Challenge & PickTV are not free on sky as you pay to get sky there are free on freeview as you don't pay for them,
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Old 13-06-2012, 07:55   #133
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Challenge and Pick TV are still FTA for me and their + channels

All we now need is for Dave, Yesterday, Really and Quest plus their + channels to go FTA as well as Sky Atlantic and Dave HD and Sky Atlantic HD
along with ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD
pick tv and challenge

still fta on my combo and samsung freesat tuner
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Old 13-06-2012, 08:09   #134
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I cant see Challenge/Pick TV on my box in the Freesat Channel list (cycled through the lot). Do I need to retune?
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Old 13-06-2012, 08:16   #135
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I cant see Challenge/Pick TV on my box in the Freesat Channel list (cycled through the lot). Do I need to retune?
There not on freesat! Although they are FTA. So you need to put the box in non freesat mode then run a tune!
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Old 13-06-2012, 08:17   #136
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Challenge & PickTV are not free on sky as you pay to get sky there are free on freeview as you don't pay for them,
Wrong!!! At this present moment in time they are FTA so there currently free on satellite.
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Old 13-06-2012, 10:45   #137
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Pick was FTA for a few days, encrypted again yesterday evening, and FTA again this morning! Weirdness
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Old 13-06-2012, 10:57   #138
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I've got a picture in my head of Derek500 sat at home flicking an encryption switch on and off while laughing manically.
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Old 13-06-2012, 11:14   #139
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Wrong!!! At this present moment in time they are FTA so there currently free on satellite.
If you have a Humax HDR and Raydon's excellent custom firmware package, you can add them to the Freesat channel line-up with the Channel Editor, although you don't get the EPG info of course. You don't then need to switch to non-Freesat mode to view them.
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Old 13-06-2012, 11:16   #140
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Pick was FTA for a few days, encrypted again yesterday evening, and FTA again this morning! Weirdness
Do keep up! Pick TV was only encrypted for an hour. It went back to been in the clear yesterday
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Old 13-06-2012, 12:35   #141
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Do keep up! Pick TV was only encrypted for an hour. It went back to been in the clear yesterday
Fair enough, it just happened to be encrypted when I looked! I didn't check again til today
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Old 13-06-2012, 12:50   #142
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If you have a Humax HDR and Raydon's excellent custom firmware package, you can add them to the Freesat channel line-up with the Channel Editor, although you don't get the EPG info of course. You don't then need to switch to non-Freesat mode to view them.
Is there a firmware for the Humax HD box ?

what about other devices ? - any firmware that does the same ?
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Old 13-06-2012, 13:12   #143
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Is there a firmware for the Humax HD box ?

what about other devices ? - any firmware that does the same ?
It's able to be done with the Humax Foxsat HDR as the hard drive can be utilised to store data. Obviously the same method cannot be used for the Humax Foxsat HD.
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Old 13-06-2012, 16:03   #144
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Can you schedule recordings on the Humax if you add non freesat channels to the EPG?
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Old 13-06-2012, 16:24   #145
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No EPG data is available due to the way they are added to the EPG with the custom firmware, so no would be the simple answer, but you could set a manual recording if you knew the start and end times.
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Old 13-06-2012, 18:10   #146
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Is Pick TV still FTA? It disappeared the other day, I did a re-tune and it still wasn't there, though the Challenge channels were.

Do I need to do another manual re-tune, or has Pick gone for good?
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Old 13-06-2012, 18:27   #147
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It's still there on 12207V.
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Old 13-06-2012, 21:55   #148
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Pick TV PICK TV+1 And Challenge are still FTA
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Old 14-06-2012, 18:28   #149
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Yeah. I did another retune and so on and they were there.

It's a bit tricky with the modified firmware and wanting the channels in Freesat mode.

It seems I have to manually rescan on the box, then go to the networked interface and in the channel editor, import the channel data, modify the settings on the channels (from non-freesat to freesat), restart the box and then also go into my favourite list and re-add & re-order the channels.

It takes quite a while and it's a bit of a PITA, TBH.

Am I making it unnecessarily complicated for myself? Is there an easier way?
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Old 14-06-2012, 18:30   #150
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It's not THAT hard, considering you only need to do it once (theoretically...)
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