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BC July 3rd 06 04:00 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is, am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky subscription, then
watch back the recordings?



Ed July 3rd 06 04:11 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 

BC wrote:
I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is, am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky subscription, then
watch back the recordings?


No.


Palindr☻me July 3rd 06 05:08 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:

I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is, am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky subscription, then
watch back the recordings?



No.

IIUC, if you discontinue your Sky+ contract and later resurrect it, you
won't be able to view anything previously stored and will just have to
delete them.

--
Sue

Tumbleweed July 3rd 06 05:30 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 

"Palindr?me" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:

I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next few
months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is, am I
able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky subscription, then
watch back the recordings?



No.

IIUC, if you discontinue your Sky+ contract and later resurrect it, you
won't be able to view anything previously stored and will just have to
delete them.

--
Sue


plus, assuming the building work means the dish or cables are being
disconnected/moved (hence you cancelling), it wont work if you cant get a
signal anyway.

--
Tumbleweed

email replies not necessary but to contact use;
tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com



rob July 3rd 06 08:27 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Palindr?me" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:

I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next
few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is,
am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky
subscription, then watch back the recordings?


No.

IIUC, if you discontinue your Sky+ contract and later resurrect it,
you won't be able to view anything previously stored and will just
have to delete them.

--
Sue


plus, assuming the building work means the dish or cables are being
disconnected/moved (hence you cancelling), it wont work if you cant
get a signal anyway.


I think he meant that he would record them before the dish came off etc. and
then just watch "taped" programs.

IIRC he could just pay £10/month and still watch the FTV progs he had taped
but not any subscription stuff, ie films etc.




Tumbleweed July 3rd 06 10:10 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 

"rob" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Palindr?me" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:

I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next
few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is,
am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky
subscription, then watch back the recordings?


No.

IIUC, if you discontinue your Sky+ contract and later resurrect it,
you won't be able to view anything previously stored and will just
have to delete them.

--
Sue


plus, assuming the building work means the dish or cables are being
disconnected/moved (hence you cancelling), it wont work if you cant
get a signal anyway.


I think he meant that he would record them before the dish came off etc.
and
then just watch "taped" programs.



...and my point is, he can't watch "taped" programs if the dish is off!
No signal, no Sky+, even for playback of recordings only.

--
Tumbleweed

email replies not necessary but to contact use;
tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com



Sean Black July 4th 06 10:15 AM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
In article , rob
writes
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Palindr?me" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:

I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next
few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is,
am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky
subscription, then watch back the recordings?


No.

IIUC, if you discontinue your Sky+ contract and later resurrect it,
you won't be able to view anything previously stored and will just
have to delete them.

--
Sue


plus, assuming the building work means the dish or cables are being
disconnected/moved (hence you cancelling), it wont work if you cant
get a signal anyway.


I think he meant that he would record them before the dish came off etc. and
then just watch "taped" programs.

IIRC he could just pay £10/month and still watch the FTV progs he had taped
but not any subscription stuff, ie films etc.



I don't think it works at all, without any satellite signal does it?
Even the FTV stuff.
--
Sean Black

Mike July 4th 06 06:29 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
Ed wrote:
BC wrote:
I'm having a lot of building work done to my house over the next few months
and I'm thinking of cancelling sky for the duration. Question is, am I able
to load up my sky+ box with recordings, cancel the sky subscription, then
watch back the recordings?


No.


Is there anyway of decoding the content of the sky+ HD via a PC? After
removing the disk from the sky+ box of course.

Mike


Mark A July 4th 06 06:51 PM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
Mike wrote:

Is there anyway of decoding the content of the sky+ HD via a PC?
After removing the disk from the sky+ box of course.


Not unless you've cracked Sky's protection. Which no one has, as far
as I know. And should you ever do so, expect an exceptionaly prompt
response from Sky's rottweiler-like legal dept.

Regards

Mark

Paul Hyett July 5th 06 07:46 AM

Does Sky+ work without the subscription?
 
In uk.media.tv.sky on Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Mark A wrote :


Not unless you've cracked Sky's protection. Which no one has, as far
as I know. And should you ever do so, expect an exceptionaly prompt
response from Sky's rottweiler-like legal dept.


Would anyone smart enough to do so, be dumb enough to tell them? :)

Of course, they could try blackmail - 'If you try to prosecute me, I'll
post the hack all over the internet'...
--
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett


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