Sky box fed from router

If you have a Sky subscription of some description, but just for SD, and you
get a HD box, HD+ in fact, can you mate the card and box successfully (only
receiving SD channels of course)?

The reason I ask is I am considering how to set up Sky reception from the
internet (I am in Cyprus) and this will entail setting up the box fed from a
router with a VPN, and I would prefer to use a Sky HD+ box rather than a
Sky+ box, for possible future HD use.

Y.

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"Y Dangle" wrote:

If you have a Sky subscription of some description, but just for SD, and you
get a HD box, HD+ in fact, can you mate the card and box successfully (only
receiving SD channels of course)?

The reason I ask is I am considering how to set up Sky reception from the
internet (I am in Cyprus) and this will entail setting up the box fed from a
router with a VPN, and I would prefer to use a Sky HD+ box rather than a
Sky+ box, for possible future HD use.

Y.

That would work fine if you were in the UK, and you could just add the
HD subscription whenever you wanted to enable those channels; but mating
the card requires a satellite signal and a telephone landline located in
the UK.

On 24/02/2013 07:54, Y Dangle wrote:
If you have a Sky subscription of some description, but just for SD, and you
get a HD box, HD+ in fact, can you mate the card and box successfully (only
receiving SD channels of course)?

The reason I ask is I am considering how to set up Sky reception from the
internet (I am in Cyprus) and this will entail setting up the box fed from a
router with a VPN, and I would prefer to use a Sky HD+ box rather than a
Sky+ box, for possible future HD use.




that's what i do.
you also get the bonus of being able to see the free hd channels - such
as bbc, channel 5, 4, russia today, NHK.

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