farewell good friend....;O(
 

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz

I'm not at all clued up on this stuff, would this Pout thing have got
my missing channels back? or stopped them going off in the first
place?

Gaz

Dom Robinson wrote in message . ..
In article ,
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I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

More to the point, why didn't you do the Pout TV thing to get a version 2
card?

Gaz wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

How much did you pay for it?


I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Over the last few months Sky have moved progressively to encryption
only suitable for V2 cards. The last ones to change are the three FTV
channels.

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How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
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Dom Robinson wrote:

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

More to the point, why didn't you do the Pout TV thing to get a version 2
card?

Do you seriously expect the Pout method to work with what is
apparently a pirate card? And even if the method did work would you
seriously expect the replacement card to also offer all the pay
channels for free?

I doubt it.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/tez5
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Jomtien wrote in message . ..
Gaz wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

How much did you pay for it?



I bought a house 3 1/2 years ago, me and the seller were um-ing and
arr-ing over fixtures and fittings and the sky card and box was one of
the things he threw in to shut me up!!!!

I've seen him since and he's gutted it lasted so long!

Gaz

On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

"JP" wrote in message
...
On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though? AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed

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"Jaime" wrote in message
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Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though?
AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


The hdtv rips on a decent comp monitor look better than the output from a
sky digibox.

Jaime


What size file are we talking about for say a 50 min (ie US 1 hour)
programme?

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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
. ..
"Jaime" wrote in message
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Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though?
AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


The hdtv rips on a decent comp monitor look better than the output from
a
sky digibox.

Jaime


What size file are we talking about for say a 50 min (ie US 1 hour)
programme?


I am told about 700mb or 4/5 hours on ADSL which seems quite reasomable, the
few I have seem (divx 5.05 or xvid) where practically dvd quality apart from
the fox/etc.. logo.

Jaime

"Jaime" wrote in message
...

"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
. ..
"Jaime" wrote in message
...

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2
though?
AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


The hdtv rips on a decent comp monitor look better than the output
from
a
sky digibox.

Jaime


What size file are we talking about for say a 50 min (ie US 1 hour)
programme?


I am told about 700mb or 4/5 hours on ADSL which seems quite reasomable,
the
few I have seem (divx 5.05 or xvid) where practically dvd quality apart
from
the fox/etc.. logo.

Jaime


File sizes that small display as about the 1/4 of my 17" screen, or maybe
less.
Stretch it larger and you are creating artifacts, its only DVD quality-ish
at that native size (ie whatever size it has been created).

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:58:48 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


"JP" wrote in message
.. .
On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though? AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


I've got a decent graphics card with S-Video output - Hercules All In
Wonder 9800 SE.
I can watch the output on either my 36" Sony Wega TV or on a 96"
screen from my Panasonic projector.

The quality of the files out there does vary, but the widescreen
HDTV files are easily as good as Sky broadcasts.

John.

"JP" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:58:48 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


"JP" wrote in message
.. .
On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though? AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


I've got a decent graphics card with S-Video output - Hercules All In
Wonder 9800 SE.
I can watch the output on either my 36" Sony Wega TV or on a 96"
screen from my Panasonic projector.

The quality of the files out there does vary, but the widescreen
HDTV files are easily as good as Sky broadcasts.

HD rips of 24 in xvid format are 350mb and do look vgood on a tv, much
better than VCD which is over 400mb for the same episode.


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File sizes that small display as about the 1/4 of my 17" screen, or maybe
less.
Stretch it larger and you are creating artifacts, its only DVD quality-ish
at that native size (ie whatever size it has been created).


It really is very high quality and the stretching creates very little
artifacts. The quality may not be dvd however its practically as good as say
the output from a dttv card.

Jaime