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date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:15 +0100,
group: uk.tech.tv.sky
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Re: C4 HD and Sky+
nope
I record on a weekly basis
Desperate Housewives and Dirty Sexy Money
works fine
"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:66f393F2kc732U1@mid.individual.net...
> Just acquired a second hand HD Sky+ box.
>
> I've stuck in a current and active Sky subscription card. Obviously the
> 'premium' sports and film channels cannot be viewed or recorded, but all
> other SD and the three FTA/FTV HD channels can be.
>
> However I cannot get the box to record, or 'Live Pause' anything on the
> C4-HD channel. BBC HD and Luxe.tv are fine, as is any other SD channel.
> I can set the box to record any C4-HD programme, but it just gets tagged
> as 'Failed'. Doing a manual rec start from the N+N banner tags it with a
> red icon, but again it doesn't actually record.
>
> Is C4-HD tagged as 'un-recordable' or similar ?
>
> Seems I not alone, Post 10 here:-
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> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=708849
>
> --
> Mark
> Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.
date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:15 +0100
author: Larry
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Re: C4 HD and Sky+
Larry wrote:
: "Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
: news:66f393F2kc732U1@mid.individual.net...
: > Just acquired a second hand HD Sky+ box.
: >
: > I've stuck in a current and active Sky subscription card. Obviously the
: > 'premium' sports and film channels cannot be viewed or recorded, but all
: > other SD and the three FTA/FTV HD channels can be.
: >
: > However I cannot get the box to record, or 'Live Pause' anything on the
: > C4-HD channel. BBC HD and Luxe.tv are fine, as is any other SD channel.
: > I can set the box to record any C4-HD programme, but it just gets tagged
: > as 'Failed'. Doing a manual rec start from the N+N banner tags it with a
: > red icon, but again it doesn't actually record.
: >
: > Is C4-HD tagged as 'un-recordable' or similar ?
No!! - but Sky+ STBs (Including Sky-HD) won't record on encrypted channels
unless the smartcard is properly paired to the box. Sky will do this
almost immediately and without fuss. Just make sure that they don't enable
Sky-HD - unless that is what you want!
date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:36 +0000 (UTC)
author: Brian McIlwrath
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