Can you get programmes of a Sky box, when you no longer have a sky subscription

[KatyMac]

Please?

You can get free view channels through a sky box and dish without needing a sky card.

What about the ones you recorded? Can they be 'downloaded' or stored somewhere else?

We are ditching our sky next month, they told us we could keep the box but we wouldn't be able to watch anything we have recorded. I've got 25 episodes of Australian Masterchef to watch!

I think the answer is unfortunately no :( If you still have your subscription (but are about to cancel) then it's not too late to play them back, and record with DVD recorder. Now we have cancelled and gone into free view, the things we have recorded are sitting in the planner (and presumably on the hard drive) but can't be played.

to play them back, and record with DVD recorder

How do I do this?

By the way, they can be a bit trigger happy and downgrade viewing card early, so even if you thought you had a few more hours before playback would be disabled, it may go at any time within 72 hours of "last day"

It's someone else's box but we can watch with our Sky card - we are just struggling to record from it

Oh, that's interesting - I had (wrongly) assumed they would have encrypted or "password" protected the content by locking it to the original card. Neat that you can view content. I had my own box, and bought a s/h box (because a client was looking at options for a static caravan they own), but when I cancelled Sky (and indeed TV Licence too) decided I'd re-use the hard drive. I actually downgraded the viewing card (so it might work when next I buy a licence), but found it very difficult to extract the hard drive (the box I have has quite an awkward to remove metal box around the hard drive). Sorry for going off at a tangent - I suppose they considered they'd get more complaints if they locked the recordings to a card and then nothing was viewable if they had to send out a new card...

Anyway, good luck with getting something to record. I hope redgate comes back and explains their method. From what I've read, the recording would probably need to be via a SCART cable - HDMI is intended as encrypted (to prevent high quality copying) and only unit with an HDMI input is the TV (OK, AV Amps may include HDMI inputs but don't themselves do recordings - recording boxes don't have HDMI input)

The encryption of the content is on the subscription level. It is the same encryption using the XTV encryptor for everyone as it is broadcasted. The card has entitlement which allows you to decode the content depending to subscription level. It has nothing to do with complaints. HTH networkguy. I know you are curious