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SD boxes to lose all sky channels in August

HeathHayle — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:21:43 GMT

hi guys just been wondering about sky saying that SD boxes will lose all sky channels in august because the letter I received didnt list them all is it just a case of too many to list?

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

pinknina667 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:26:19 GMT

@HeathHayle Hello. For those with an SD box only, Sky channels (those listed on your letter) will be infact closing their SD only feed from June 2024 onwards, with all the Sky channels switching off by the start of August. There will be other channels still avaialble on the box (not Sky) but it is recommended you move to another product such as Sky Q to get the most from your subscription. Hope this helps.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

Mark39 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:26:57 GMT

I would imagine the letter lists the popular channels. All channels broadcasting from a DVB-S transponder are moving to a DVB-S2 transponder which SD boxes cannot receive.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:59:10 GMT

@Mark39popular channels didnt think of that so I take it the rebrand didnt prove very popular then lol because I bet back in the day sky 1 would have been listed but showcase nowhere to be seen

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:13:46 GMT

@pinknina667 will be interesting what channels will still be available would be great if SD boxes will be able to be used until satellite switch off heres to hoping!

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

nigea99 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:02:59 GMT

@HeathHayle wrote:

@pinknina667 will be interesting what channels will still be available would be great if SD boxes will be able to be used until satellite switch off heres to hoping!

Personally I have not read anything about UKTV (Dave, W, Drama, Yesterday - FTA -& Alibi, Gold & Eden - subscription ) changing their SD channels but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they also migrate their channels from DVB-S to DVB-S2 in the not too distant future

In reality the number of active SD only boxes must be tiny now

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

Annie+UK — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:13:56 GMT

@nigea99 wrote:

@HeathHayle wrote:

@pinknina667 will be interesting what channels will still be available would be great if SD boxes will be able to be used until satellite switch off heres to hoping!

Personally I have not read anything about UKTV (Dave, W, Drama, Yesterday - FTA -& Alibi, Gold & Eden - subscription ) changing their SD channels but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they also migrate their channels from DVB-S to DVB-S2 in the not too distant future

In reality the number of active SD only boxes must be tiny now

As those channels are 100% owned by the BBC they may go HD only at some point in the future, like the other BBC channels

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

nigea99 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:18:51 GMT

@Annie+UK wrote:

@nigea99 wrote:

@HeathHayle wrote:

@pinknina667 will be interesting what channels will still be available would be great if SD boxes will be able to be used until satellite switch off heres to hoping!

Personally I have not read anything about UKTV (Dave, W, Drama, Yesterday - FTA -& Alibi, Gold & Eden - subscription ) changing their SD channels but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they also migrate their channels from DVB-S to DVB-S2 in the not too distant future

In reality the number of active SD only boxes must be tiny now

As those channels are 100% owned by the BBC they may go HD only at some point in the future, like the other BBC channels

Yes this did cross my mind although Drama, as yet, has never been in HD (although we can now get some downloads in HD) and W HD remained as subscription when they made W in SD FTA but it certainly would not surprise if they do go HD only

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

rscott — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:08:38 GMT

@pinknina667 wrote:

@HeathHayle Hello. For those with an SD box only, Sky channels (those listed on your letter) will be infact closing their SD only feed from June 2024 onwards, with all the Sky channels switching off by the start of August. There will be other channels still avaialble on the box (not Sky) but it is recommended you move to another product such as Sky Q to get the most from your subscription. Hope this helps.

Sky aren't closing any SD channels - they're changing the broadcast method to DVB-S2 which the non HD boxes can't receive.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:06:49 GMT

apart from sky cinema and sky sports I wonder if other packs can be added and removed etc like now on SD boxes after august

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

rscott — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:54:12 GMT

@HeathHayle wrote:

apart from sky cinema and sky sports I wonder if other packs can be added and removed etc like now on SD boxes after august

Unlikely - I think the only other pack might be Sky Kids and I believe that's already in HD with a lot of content on demand.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

Hayden+mullinder — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:09:38 GMT

Same I still has happened (it airrving 8th april 2024 im waiting when get sky + for ebay

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:10:54 GMT

@rscott if the kids pack is still in SD and obviously its not the sports or cinema pack do you think that would be still add/removable like it must be now because there is no current changes?

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

rscott — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:24:56 GMT

The Sky Kids channel is HD only, so I doubt they'll let an SD subscriber add it.

Hopefully Sky have locked all SD box subscribers so they can't add anything unless they upgrade.

I wouldn't be surprised if they cease SD box subscriptions in future, once they've to changed all their channels.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:06:06 GMT

"Hopefully Sky have locked all SD box subscribers so they can't add anything unless they upgrade." charming thats not very nice lol I was referring to the kids pack which includes SD channels not the sky kids channel which you say is HD only

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

rscott — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:18:02 GMT

@HeathHayle wrote:

"Hopefully Sky have locked all SD box subscribers so they can't add anything unless they upgrade." charming thats not very nice lol I was referring to the kids pack which includes SD channels not the sky kids channel which you say is HD only

The non HD boxes will be almost completely useless when Sky have changed all their channels to DVB-S2 - they simply won't be able to receive almost all the paid for channels.

So continuing to charge a subscription for them when the paying customer can't get most of the content in that subscription is borderline unethical.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:21:36 GMT

I personally think it depends what you use your subscription for and if you can still get the channels you use at the price and use the equipment your happy even if thats on a SD box I cant see the problem

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

rscott — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:30:13 GMT

@HeathHayle wrote:

I personally think it depends what you use your subscription for and if you can still get the channels you use at the price and use the equipment your happy even if thats on a SD box I cant see the problem

You'd be paying £30 a month to view a tiny number of subscription channels after August though - no BBC or Sky channels at all (pretty much only some UKTV and Discovery group channels).

It's highly likely many of the other broadcasters will switch to DVB-S2 sooner rather than later too as it'll save them money, being a more efficient transmission method.

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

SKY1992bf — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:37:44 GMT

@HeathHayle This help article direct from sky confirms that subscriptions to sky branded channels plus mutv will be cancelled automatically

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/sky-channel-upgrade

Re: SD boxes to lose all sky channels in august

HeathHayle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:32:55 GMT

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