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Strange that. The card replacement should have happened last year 2014 and didn't. I would have thought that it would have therefore happened this year and still hasn't. It is looking unlikely that it will happen now as Sky does not like to undertake such projects once Christmas starts to come near. Maybe next year? Maybe not?
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Strange that. The card replacement should have happened last year 2014 and didn't. I would have thought that it would have therefore happened this year and still hasn't. It is looking unlikely that it will happen now as Sky does not like to undertake such projects once Christmas starts to come near. Maybe next year? Maybe not?
If that is the case, its likely a good enough reason to delay the card swap, until they have enough new boxes to replace all the white boxes subscriber's have. Any non subscribers who use cards for BT sport will likely be left out, when it finally happens. |
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Any non subscribers who use cards for BT sport will likely be left out, when it finally happens.
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It would presumably be up to BT to replace those cards?.
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Still working
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It would presumably be up to BT to replace those cards?.
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In that case Im suspecting that they arent changing the cards yet, as whatever new cards likely wont be compatible with older boxes.
If that is the case, its likely a good enough reason to delay the card swap, until they have enough new boxes to replace all the white boxes subscriber's have. Any non subscribers who use cards for BT sport will likely be left out, when it finally happens. |
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The impression of the sequence for this to work I'm getting, is it needs to have been the original card in the box, subscription ended, box disconnected & left idle for a while - then bought back later into service - would this be correct?
PS Mine is also still recording & playing, with no subscription
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The impression of the sequence for this to work I'm getting, is it needs to have been the original card in the box, subscription ended, box disconnected & left idle for a while - then bought back later into service - would this be correct?
That worked for the previous card (the blue house card i believe), where the Sky+ features were disabled after you cancelled (so removing the card for x months meant it missed the disable signal), whereas the current white cards get a keep alive signal, if it misses it, the features go to sleep until it receives a new wake up signal, which, if it is a cancelled account, the Sky+ wake up signal will never come. As for yours working, someone must have done it in error, the fact only 1 or 2 people have reported it, rather than hundreds, would indicate this is the case. |
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Not with the current white cards, no.
That worked for the previous card (the blue house card i believe), where the Sky+ features were disabled after you cancelled (so removing the card for x months meant it missed the disable signal), whereas the current white cards get a keep alive signal, if it misses it, the features go to sleep until it receives a new wake up signal, which, if it is a cancelled account, the Sky+ wake up signal will never come. As for yours working, someone must have done it in error, the fact only 1 or 2 people have reported it, rather than hundreds, would indicate this is the case. The sequence of events from my POV is as follows: Purchased Box & card from a car-boot fair, when it was plugged in a week later, it was still working on subscription channels (discovery, sports etc) for about 3 weeks - at that time I wiped the HDD of all the old recordings from the "Secret menu" , it then reverted to being a freesat type box. I was not aware it MIGHT even record, until I read on DS, that someone else had succeeded, tried it on mine & bingo, it worked - & still does so
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You can't reorder the channels but you can delete them.
Select settings > (now notice the very large arrow) Right - Editable channels. |
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And, yes - it is still recording OK
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And, yes - it is still recording OK
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...0#post80175970 |
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I wonder if you've unknowingly got the offer mentioned in this thread, of 6 months free Sky+ features?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...0#post80175970 |
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After reading the same thread I also think similar.
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It would seem likely wouldn't it?
I wonder if he'll be so keen to keep telling us it's stopped once the offer runs out?
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It would seem likely wouldn't it?
I wonder if he'll be so keen to keep telling us it's stopped once the offer runs out? ![]() ![]() But I have never subscribed to Sky, I've had the box for a long time - much longer than 6 months! It is a glitch, but if it ends, I promise to let you know! |
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Stopped
Looks Like by box has has stopped recording, good while it lasted
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Looks Like by box has has stopped recording, good while it lasted
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Still working here
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I wonder if you've unknowingly got the offer mentioned in this thread, of 6 months free Sky+ features?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...0#post80175970 .
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It's over 6 months since I first reported this & it's still working
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Yup, same here - our boxes are unique
![]() . But, yeah it must be pretty rare, bizarre that Sky can't turn it off .
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Not everyone frequents the DS Freesat forum though
. But, yeah it must be pretty rare, bizarre that Sky can't turn it off .Quote:
Yup, same here - our boxes are unique
![]() I have two old "blue" cards that are still working to record and playback FTA channels but they will not work in the latest Amstrad/Sky DRX890 boxes - only in my Pace 850 and Thompson HD+ boxes. |
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