Sky+ functions disabled on cricket

Some posters on here may remember a query I had last year with the Sky+
functions not working on Sky Sports 1 when the Ashes was on.

I had totally forgotten about this until the other day when flicking through
the channels I decided to watch a bit of the 1 day series currently taking
place. I mis-heard a comment by a commentator and thought "no probs, I'll
just rewind that..." when guess what? No Sky+ functions again!!! It seems
that the problem last year was no glitch - it is a clear ploy by Sky!!

I wonder, if I phoned them and asked them to deduct a percentage from my
subscription as I do not have FULL functionality for long periods due to one
of their policies?..........

Nel wrote:

Some posters on here may remember a query I had last year with the Sky+
functions not working on Sky Sports 1 when the Ashes was on.

I do.


I had totally forgotten about this until the other day when flicking through
the channels I decided to watch a bit of the 1 day series currently taking
place. I mis-heard a comment by a commentator and thought "no probs, I'll
just rewind that..." when guess what? No Sky+ functions again!!! It seems
that the problem last year was no glitch - it is a clear ploy by Sky!!

Indeed. It seems very odd.

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Nel wrote:

I wonder, if I phoned them and asked them to deduct a percentage from
my subscription as I do not have FULL functionality for long periods
due to one of their policies?..........

It's Sky's legal department fearing that anyone insane enough to want
to watch cricket once is on the edge, but twice would certainly tip
them over.

Regards

Mark

It's Sky's legal department fearing that anyone insane enough to want
to watch cricket once is on the edge, but twice would certainly tip
them over.


Inzamam has paid them off lest anyone spot some ball tampering and try
to rewind it to make sure they did see it!

Ed wrote:
It's Sky's legal department fearing that anyone insane enough to want
to watch cricket once is on the edge, but twice would certainly tip
them over.


Inzamam has paid them off lest anyone spot some ball tampering and try
to rewind it to make sure they did see it!


Take that back, we are told he swore on the koran he din't ball tamper
so he couldn't have.

Mike

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:29:08 GMT, "Nel" wrote:

just rewind that..." when guess what? No Sky+ functions again!!! It seems
that the problem last year was no glitch - it is a clear ploy by Sky!!

Are you sure it's not a known bug on programmes with very long
durations? (Such as, for example.. oh, I don't know.. erm... Cricket?)

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At 17:26:41 on 08/09/2006, Zero Tolerance delighted uk.media.tv.sky by
announcing:

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:29:08 GMT, "Nel" wrote:

just rewind that..." when guess what? No Sky+ functions again!!!
It seems that the problem last year was no glitch - it is a clear
ploy by Sky!!

Are you sure it's not a known bug on programmes with very long
durations? (Such as, for example.. oh, I don't know.. erm... Cricket?)

Ummm... no problems here, on SS1 or SSHD1.