25 Apr 2024 07:24 PM - last edited: 25 Apr 2024 07:25 PM
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@ThePope27 wrote:
I think there's a few sky+hd models that don't decode DVB-S2 as well.
As they ae HD boxes they MUST be able to decode HD (which have always transmitted innthe DVB-S2 format) and as such would continie to work woth any DVB-S2 transmissions
There has been no Sky+HD box that only decodes DVB-S transmissions only, if that were the case they would never had HD on these (non existant) boxes.
The older boxes would have to be SD only to not decode HD
25 Apr 2024 07:26 PM
@GD1 ,
The first OG 2006 boxes were DVB-S only......
25 Apr 2024 07:29 PM - last edited: 25 Apr 2024 07:31 PM
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@ThePope27 wrote:
The OG PVR4 Thompson/Pace/Samsung boxes.
End of life, I would only recommend DRX890, DRX895 & DRX595, our Thompson was replace by Sky in a mass callback many years ago due to a hardware design issue
I still have a PVR4 down the shed that my parents owned when sky hd first come out,
Ancient software with many bugs 😞
I was 3 years old when Sky HD was first released, just thought I would make you feel old 😉
No need, I am old 🙂
25 Apr 2024 07:30 PM
@GD1,
You comment is incorrect as BBC HD was transmitted on DVB-S until 6th of June 2011
25 Apr 2024 07:33 PM
I was just on about the OG PVR4 Thompson/Samsung boxes were the DVB-S only boxes, I wouldn't recommend them as a daily driver,
Only recommend DRX890WL and DRX895WL
25 Apr 2024 07:43 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more@ThePope27 I don;t believe they were as Sky HD channels were always DVB-S2 so for this box in 2006 to be released without access to these HD channels from Sky would have been a major foobar.
25 Apr 2024 08:04 PM
@GD1,
Its made me curious now, I'll whip the old boy out over the weekend and satisfy my curiosity (that's if the old boy doesn't blow fire in my face)
07 May 2024 11:32 PM
Hello, it will depend when your bill date is each month, but you can expect by 30th May - there will be no Sports/Cinema channels remaning on an SD capable only box @HeathHayle
29 May 2024 01:40 PM
Not a fan If SKY wishes to close S.D. channels for SKY + H.D. box*s over 10 years. Then why just close all older box*s and switch to SKY Q?
29 May 2024 02:17 PM - last edited: 29 May 2024 02:58 PM
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@theredhouse55555 wrote:
Not a fan If SKY wishes to close S.D. channels for SKY + H.D. box*s over 10 years.
All Sky+ HD boxes are keeping their previous functionality. ' Sky+ HD ' was launched in 2006, and there are apparently still millions of such boxes in use despite Q arriving in 2016.
The affected hardware is SD-only: this is 'Digibox' (1998) and 'Sky+' (2001) boxes and there are maybe some tens of thousands of those around.
Digibox
Sky+
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/sky-channel-upgrade
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