Sky subscription query
 

At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

Sky subscription query
 

On 08/10/2012 12:02, Chris Hills wrote:
At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

Not had any recent experience, but it certainly used to be the case that
the non premium (i.e anything other than sports and films) subscription
channels would work in any box the card was inserted.

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On 08/10/2012 12:02, Chris Hills wrote:
At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to
get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at
any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

Not had any recent experience, but it certainly used to be the case that
the non premium (i.e anything other than sports and films) subscription
channels would work in any box the card was inserted.

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Yes they used to, but with the latest card they only work in one digibox (I
have such a subscription and a spare box so can speak with certainty).

Y

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On 2012-10-08, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 04:02:19 -0700 (PDT), Chris Hills
wrote:

At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

http://www.sky.com/products/ways-to-watch/multiroom/

Just the small drawback of costing over £20/month...

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Thank you to all who responded. I am disappointed but not surprised.

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I was going to say this. someone I knew buys it via a friend here in the uk,
who sends it to France and its put in a box there and seems to work, so
unless some hacking has gone on....
Brian

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On 08/10/2012 12:02, Chris Hills wrote:
At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to
get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at
any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

Not had any recent experience, but it certainly used to be the case that
the non premium (i.e anything other than sports and films) subscription
channels would work in any box the card was inserted.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

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The only way they could do that would be if it phoned home a lot surely?

Brian

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On 08/10/2012 12:02, Chris Hills wrote:
At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to
get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box
at any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?

Not had any recent experience, but it certainly used to be the case that
the non premium (i.e anything other than sports and films) subscription
channels would work in any box the card was inserted.

--

Yes they used to, but with the latest card they only work in one digibox
(I have such a subscription and a spare box so can speak with certainty).

Y

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Brian Gaff wrote:

The only way they could do that would be if it phoned home a lot surely?

I think the multi-room boxes do phone home, some friends of mine had to
ditch the multi-room when they emigrated, other than that, uncle Rupe
seems happy enough to send the paperwork to my address!

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On 08/10/2012 12:02, Chris Hills wrote:
At home I have 3 sky boxes that I mostly use for radio. I would like to get a sky subscription. Am I able to use the card in each box (one box at any given time), or is the card locked to a single box?




only the premium channels such as sky sports should be.
certainly last time i tried all the others worked with my card.

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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I was going to say this. someone I knew buys it via a friend here in the
uk, who sends it to France and its put in a box there and seems to work, so
unless some hacking has gone on....
Brian

You can get a subscription card to work in a new box by phoning Sky and
giving the box details, as long as you are receiving a good signal, they
must send a signal to do this.

Y

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On 09/10/2012 11:04, Y Dangle wrote:
You can get a subscription card to work in a new box by phoning Sky and
giving the box details, as long as you are receiving a good signal, they
must send a signal to do this.

I don't fancy doing this every time I want to watch tv in a different
room though. Do you think if I phoned them enough they'd give in and
provide me with an unlocked card, or do they simply not exist?

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In message , Chris Hills
writes
On 09/10/2012 11:04, Y Dangle wrote:
You can get a subscription card to work in a new box by phoning Sky and
giving the box details, as long as you are receiving a good signal, they
must send a signal to do this.

I don't fancy doing this every time I want to watch tv in a different
room though. Do you think if I phoned them enough they'd give in and
provide me with an unlocked card, or do they simply not exist?

After you have both boxes registered, all you have to do is move the
card from one box to another.
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Ian

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"Chris Hills" wrote in message
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On 09/10/2012 11:04, Y Dangle wrote:
You can get a subscription card to work in a new box by phoning Sky and
giving the box details, as long as you are receiving a good signal, they
must send a signal to do this.

I don't fancy doing this every time I want to watch tv in a different
room though. Do you think if I phoned them enough they'd give in and
provide me with an unlocked card, or do they simply not exist?


I think a card to watch in a second room is a tenner a month, I seriously
doubt you would ever get anything cheaper fom them.

Y

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In article ,
Chris Hills wrote:

On 09/10/2012 11:04, Y Dangle wrote:
You can get a subscription card to work in a new box by phoning Sky and
giving the box details, as long as you are receiving a good signal, they
must send a signal to do this.

I don't fancy doing this every time I want to watch tv in a different
room though. Do you think if I phoned them enough they'd give in and
provide me with an unlocked card, or do they simply not exist?

Most unlikely. They will change the card registration when you change
your box for a new one, but there's no way you're going to allow you to
keep carting the card to different boxes round the house.

A 'multiroom' card will cost you £10 for each additional box (the last
time I looked) which will mirror your subscribed channels on the main
box.