Trying to setup sky Q box to record sky sports news in SD as do no subscribe to sky hd channels

[Gooner18]

When away from home and try to setup to record sky sports news in SD with sky go app as I don't subscribe to sky hd channels it records it in HD so then I'm unable to watch it!! Why are there no recordable SD channels.

[caesarome · Accepted solution]

@Gooner18 

Try channel 866 as that should set the recordings in SD as you can see there will be no longer be HD against the programs as there is with channel 409.

[Gooner18]

Thanks for your help and useful reply, much appreciated 👍

[caesarome]

I have just had a thought @Gooner18 , if you are a Sky Sports customer then you should be able to view the sports channels in HD by default without the need to subscribe to the HD package as it has been this way since 2018 !

[Gooner18]

Hi,I don't subscribe to  sky sports package, but I get sky sports news SD with with the TV package I have.I wanted to record Ref watch but it only recorded it in HD, but thanks to your previous answer I now know for future reference channel is 866 

Thanks for your reply 👍