So I am cancelling my Sky subscription (moved over to Virgin). Only thing is that I have a large number of programs recorded on the Sky plus HD box. I believe that I will lose the ability to view many of them once I leave Sky. Question:

 

If I disconnect the box from the network / phone line / satellite dish, will I then be able to continue to view the recorded material?

 

Otherwise, it will be spend the next month transferring programs to DVD.

Watching with interest but guessing that you'll be having a busy month. 

When you cancel your Sky account, Sky will want to fire the kill switch on your viewing card. If you're disconnected from the dish, phone and wireless network prior to calling them and initiating the switch-off, you should (in theory) be able to watch your recorded media for a short time. Obviously if there's no way they can get a signal to your kit they can't disable it.

 

There might well be watchdog running on the boxes these days, which means if it hasn't seen a satellite signal for some time it'll refuse to do anything until it's reconnected, which is why I say that you'll be able to view the recorded data for a short time. That short time might be 24 hours or 24 days...

Oh how i miss the old analogue days... 

when after the "kill" signal a sky card would work again after a couple of days in the freezer and a rub under yer armpit.

mustve worked a dozen times over the course of about 15months until they issued replacement cards to currebt subscribers, chamging the incription key.. 

1 minute ago, mac11irl said:

Oh how i miss the old analogue days... 

when after the "kill" signal a sky card would work again after a couple of days in the freezer and a rub under yer armpit.

mustve worked a dozen times over the course of about 15months until they issued replacement cards to currebt subscribers, chamging the incription key.. 

Having never had Sky I don't miss the analogue days at all.

Five poxy channels. WTF was that **** about?

10 minutes ago, Lee01 said:

Having never had Sky I don't miss the analogue days at all.

Five poxy channels. WTF was that **** about?

 

5?!!  Ye were doing well! At the time in ireland we had RTE1 Network2. TnaG (irish language channel) launched mid-late 90s... iirc they had their 20th anniversary last year! Without sky that was it in ireland..

3 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

 

5?!!  Ye were doing well! At the time in ireland we had RTE1 Network2. TnaG (irish language channel) launched mid-late 90s... iirc they had their 20th anniversary last year! Without sky that was it in ireland..

your lack of channels was all but made up for by you having a Gay Byrne and The Late late Show, though

22 minutes ago, Lee01 said:

your lack of channels was all but made up for by you having a Gay Byrne and The Late late Show, though

 

Not when youre under 12yrs old it doesnt

1 hour ago, mac11irl said:

 

5?!!  Ye were doing well! At the time in ireland we had RTE1 Network2. TnaG (irish language channel) launched mid-late 90s... iirc they had their 20th anniversary last year! Without sky that was it in ireland..

 

 

Wow, didn't' realise you could get TV in Ireland.......

15 minutes ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

 

Wow, didn't' realise you could get TV in Ireland.......

 

Oh harrdy f'kin harr 

 

Edited 31 January, 20179 yr by mac11irl
emoti failure..

However, when you only had 5 English Sky channels, you also got the late night German/Italian ones that showed Colpo Grosso / Tutti Frutti. 

 

You didn't need to speak the language to see what was going on .

 

Who could forget the lovely hostess Tiziana...

" Who could forget the lovely hostess Tiziana...

 

Was she played by Emma Thompson, Katie Murphy or Robbie Coltraine?

 

not that Tutti Frutti...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(1987_TV_series)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(1990_TV_series)

 

Spot the difference...

On 31/01/2017 at 18:06, Lee01 said:

Having never had Sky I don't miss the analogue days at all.

Five poxy channels. WTF was that **** about?

Lucky you- at one time we had one ,depending on which way the wind blew, or how leaky the cable system was at the time. Dependant on the radiation, a decent signal was had by quite a few. As for radio- reception from Caroline was far better than from any of the EBC stations broadcasting in Scotland.