Recording on SKY HD box without card inserted???

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  • PAUL7331
    Top Poster
    • Mar 2008
    • 163

    #1

    Recording on SKY HD box without card inserted???

    Basically if you have a VALID sly card in another receiver, can you still use the + feature to record free channels on hd box? If not is there a way around this???
  • Manic01
    Banned
    • Dec 2008
    • 5117

    #2
    record function only works via sub card. No way round it.

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    • PAUL7331
      Top Poster
      • Mar 2008
      • 163

      #3
      Originally posted by fearona
      record function only works via sub card. No way round it.
      Damn!

      So sly HD box without card instered just gives me the FTA channels?

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      • PAUL7331
        Top Poster
        • Mar 2008
        • 163

        #4
        Originally posted by fearona
        record function only works via sub card. No way round it.
        But mate could I not purchase a 'replacement' card and say my dog eat my other one?

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        • Manic01
          Banned
          • Dec 2008
          • 5117

          #5
          yes and they will cut off the one the dog ate.

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          • terriers
            DK Veteran
            • Jan 2009
            • 580

            #6
            Yes there is guys!!..ring sky and tell em your kid has pulled the card out of the box and snapped it in half....they will send you another for a tenner...they will switch the chnls off the other card,but the recording functions still work...i did this over 12 months ago and the recording is working fine still on the fta chnls...

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            • Euronoob
              Newbie
              • Feb 2010
              • 1

              #7
              I was under the impression that you could just ring Sky anyway and tell them you have an extra box and would like a card so you can just view FTA channels through it.
              Then when it arrives ring and they'll match the card to the box as with a normal subscription.

              Of course I could have got the wrong end of the stick entirely - not often you get something for nothing!!

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              • PAUL7331
                Top Poster
                • Mar 2008
                • 163

                #8
                Originally posted by terriers
                Yes there is guys!!..ring sky and tell em your kid has pulled the card out of the box and snapped it in half....they will send you another for a tenner...they will switch the chnls off the other card,but the recording functions still work...i did this over 12 months ago and the recording is working fine still on the fta chnls...
                Ahh, this is interesting. But the new cards are the white ones so would this method still work?

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                • terriers
                  DK Veteran
                  • Jan 2009
                  • 580

                  #9
                  my new white card came and the blue 1 worked well for a few months in my octagon,untill switched off recently...but the old blue 1 still recording fine in the plus box in kids room....

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                  • DEMONACER
                    Banned
                    • Jun 2009
                    • 122

                    #10
                    Just tried this in me 6900hd.Put sly card in card reader and started recording living channel,took sly card out and it went to blank screen but carried on recording,let it record for 5 mins exactly then stopped.Went to filelist on 6900HD and never playedback.Reset 6900hd and reinserted sly card went to playlist and it played back fully.Gonna try it on other channels when I get time.Started recording encrypted .ts files off certain channels and packages.some will play back once messed about with on pc and some won't.If anybody is interested in doing more research into this then please get in touch.

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                    • steb71
                      Junior Member
                      • Sep 2010
                      • 28

                      #11
                      sly card has to be sync'd with sly hd box serial number for + features to work !

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