only a few hours to go to find out which Transponder/s are next to go dark on Sky UK SD :frown:
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only a few hours to go to find out which Transponder/s are next to go dark on Sky UK SD :frown:
What makes you say that Barney?
Think we are also still very lucky with at least MOST of Sly De, HD and SD!
Sly usually turn channels off on tuesdays, but none today so far🖒
Yes probably due to the Bank Holiday and Murdock Staff recovering from a heavy weekend bender :rofl:
but i am certain more Transponders will be Switching to iCAM in the coming dayz ..its not "IF" ..its WHEN !!! :eek:
That brings back memories,1983, i had my first Motorized satellite system installed with a 1M Dish, everything was available,D2 mac was fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by KARABANGA
so what you guys advise to do now to get sky stuff? wait it out and hope they crack card share again or switch to like of IPTV Never used it i have a vu duo box i know it dont run IPTV but i have old spiderbox i think does.
Will motorized not be blocked also for like of sky sports etc??
VuDuo run IPTV Very good , Just update your image to last OpenPLI 4 VersionQuote:
Originally Posted by krillin123
A motorized dish can receive a lot of different satellites, and channels, not everything revolves around Sky UK.
There was satellite television long before Sky UK even started.
Yes Mickha is right. Long before **** there was lots of great satellite tv and radio. From what I remember nearly all of it was free, Good quality films, sport and news with entertainment channels showing series long before it was shown in the UK. Those extra channels was a god send as most of us, as we only had four channels to pick from. Shame pure greed took over, now we have a massive choice at a premium. Long live the motorised dish and the hours of fun we still have looking for far away channels and feeds.
Yes agreed hundred percent. Good old D2mac which provided lot of entertainments in 80s and 90s. You could have the card programmed for a fiver. Lots of good old black and white comedy movies free on TV. Now everything is commercialised. You have to pay for it. Free sports were the entertainment for the poor's. Now billionaires want to be trillionaires . Such people are trapped in the egos.
It was case of less channels but better qualityQuote:
Originally Posted by Mickha
Now there are 1000's of channels (especially UK & Italy ) with almost all of it rubbish
Im sure if other packages carried more English audio we would subscribe
Sky Germany, and Movistar +, on 19.2E, have plenty of channels, most with an English Audio option.
I tend to flick between the History, National Geographic, Discovery and A&E options, but there are plenty of Film, Sports, and General Entertainment channels available, and most of them without the annoying advertisemnents, which means that you can watch science fiction, comedy, or other series, without it being split into segments, for advertisements.
Code:https://www.lyngsat.com/packages/Sky-Deutschland.html
Code:https://www.lyngsat.com/packages/Movistar--19E.html
Agreed. Couldn't get SS1 on 28 so watched on 19e and turned the Spanish commentry down. And in HD!!
If you check the audio options, on a lot of the sports channels, on 19.2E, showing Premier League games, there's an option without commentary, but with the crowd noise, which I prefer.
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Originally Posted by Mickha
Best option of the lot mate!!!
I have used my Vu+Duo2 for picture from YPbPr to TV for my 1080HD and audio from freeview pvr (need to pause for about 5 seconds to sync up easy done) from R5Live or TalkSport for commentary. Have done for years as I prefer radio commentary anyway. Far more entertaining!
Yes Funtime. I tried this today. Was watching Hull on 13 east from our Polish friends. Turn the sound down and then went online for 5 live commentary. But I found that the online commentary was about 6 seconds behind the picture. Will need a proper radio with delay function in order to achieve this. Most internet streams are great but can be unreliable. But I am sure by the start of next season, someone somewhere will have this sorted for the better and the cat and mouse game will start all over again.
With regard to the footy, any foreign audio is a million times better than listening to Robbie Savage droneing on
The only thing sky has that is hard to find elsewhere is Cricket.
Yes cricket is a lot harder to find. But those with internet access may be interested that some county websites have a fixed camera on the wicket showing live coverage from one end. This is for county championship games. Last season Nottingham and Glamorgan had live four day games with local radio commentary. Not the best coverage but a added extra to enjoy. International cricket is covered on lots of Asian channels but most of them are only available on IPTV. Once the county championship returns after the one day cup look out for live streaming of your local team if available. Hopefully there will be lots to watch. I enjoyed Glamorgan playing Gloucestershire at the end of last season, when the ball is hit into the outfield, the ball speeds away then the commentator lets you know if it has reached the boundary. Better to see something rather then just hear about it.
i would Expect to see at least 1 more Transponder being Shut Down AND switched over to iCAM encryption Tommorrow [ Tuesday ] morning .
be very surprised if its not Sky Sport 1,2 and 3 or all Movie Channels on 11934 v ..we shall wait and see !!!
... its REALLY not a matter of "IF" Its WHEN :banghead:
I like your style Barney.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barney
Can't wait for it all to go dark myself just to see what the pay server s***bags do. Already see them sending out loads of 'limited time only offers' before the end comes. Wonder if they'll refund the suckers dumb enough to sign up once it's all over?
Sky is pantz. Not value for money by any stretch of anyone's imagination AND it never has been. Apart from sport there is nothing worth signing up for but to get the sport you have to sign up to the crap first.
Always end up looking for sport elsewhere anyway & will continue to do so in future as long as it can be found. How much longer for is anyone's guess but it does seem that other options on SAT have been slowly drying up under the "if you don't encrypt like us, you don't get the rights" campaign. Can't blame them for trying to protect their business but I think most here know the real reason CS became intolerable. Too many punters leaving to take up with cheap PS. Ruined it for those of us with the tech savvy to share privately.
....and yet I seem to remember being at a similar crossroads several times in the past and something has always turned up. So who knows what the future may hold for us.....................
True mate, when I first signed up for Sky in the old analogue days on 19E, I only paid for Sky Sports and nothing else, but now as you say you also have to pay for Entertainment as well to get Sports - PLUS, because Eurosport isn't part of Sky Sports, you need even MORE channels to pay for to get THAT too, but separately!!
CRAZY - plus mega rip off!!
Yes Murdock TV is just totally the most Over-Rated Advert filled garbage package of channels ,
its really hard to believe that so many people pay massive amounts of money
to fund this irrelevant package and make Mr.Murdock the huge backstabbing Billionaire that he is today !!
my sat dish very rare if it ever moves to 28E at all these days
im more than content with the amount of quality Feeds that are still knocking about ,
after Murdock TV is history which will not be long at all i believe Live Feeds and IPTV will be the future of watching TV
only question remains is when all these commercial servers stop funding Murdock TV and plenty of other subscribers quit paying
will Murdock still afford to pay for EPL and dominate the market ??
i would imagine its going to get pretty buzy at various Sky Call centers this summer with very large numbers withdrawing their subscriptions
i think anyone with even half a brain will be making that phone call to Sky and taking their hard earned $'s elsewhere :respect-048:
and the Commercial subscribers will begin to advertise like they are doing already with "Free Gift " IPTV Bundles and so-called Bargains
and thus the money keeps rolling in again as before with cheapo IPTV Streaming Boxes and "Gifts" advertised everywhere we look ..LOL's !!!
Does not seem there was any further dark screens this morning apart from ALL Sky Disney Kids Channels are looking like they are all using iCAM Encryption now ?
Even Disney XD But i'm not sure if that is already mentioned in this thread or not ?
Yes Disney XD etc was mentioned in post 183 of this threadQuote:
Originally Posted by Barney
If I remember right I used to subscribe to sky sports 1 for about £13 a month in the beginning. Then sky sports 2 came along and you could add this if you wanted too for a extra cost. In those days you were happy to pay for football but more importantly cricket, as most games were not available live elsewhere.
Then digital came along allowing the packages to get bigger and more pricey, and including a lot of channels you don't need or watch. Remember sky closed down Eurosport in 1991 after they merged (put out of business with big cheque book) with BSB and the sports channel became sky sports. French broadcasters and ESPN bought Eurosport and over 25 years later it still attempts and achieves to kick sky's butt, as many others also do.
If and when CS finishes it will be interesting to see the chur rate percentage a few months after, as this is the number of cancellations shown as a percentage. In theory it should go up dramatically. We will see from this the effect of finishing off CS and the state of sky after this.
looks like all sky sports now gone
Got this from another forum
22 more gone as of just after 4am 16/05/17
Sky Sports 1 UK
Sky Sports 2 IRL
sky Sports 3 UK
Sky 1 UK
sky 1 +1 UK
FOX
Comedy Central UK
Cartoonito
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon +1
Nicktoons
Nick Jr
Sky Matt Damon
Sky Arts
RTE 1 IRL
RTE 1 +1 IRL
RTE 2 IRL
TV3 IRL
TG4 IRL
Oireachtas TV IRL
RTE Jr IRL
RTE News Now IRL
checked two servers, down on both
well, that's it, I have had the official word from "She who knows all".
She says it was great while it lasted,..........Mrs Cloud is now into IPTV.
You can add Sky Sports Mix & Sky Sports F1 to the unavailable list tooQuote:
Originally Posted by jrbmw
yes IPTV is the way to go.............already trying it and all channels thats gone working.And HdQuote:
Originally Posted by Dark Cloud
12266 H 27500
RTÉ One
RTÉ 2
TG 4
RTÉ News
Now
RTÉ Jr (06-19)
Oireachtas TV
RTÉ One +1
Sky Sports Mix
Sky News
Arabia
Nickelodeon UK
Nickelodeon UK +1
NickToons UK
Nick Jr UK
Baby TV Europe
Sky Living Ireland +1
gone, but virgin OK, but heard a remour today in ireland UPC sky movies disney blank?
thats because feed via a cable card and server, not satQuote:
Originally Posted by jrbmw
Or a TV capture card direct to the box.
This day was always coming, only interested in the sports, fooked now for the lions😣will av to go to the pub now to watch😆never mind we all had a good run and maybe something will happen in the near future, 🤔
can get via iptv and some kodi addons
I would imagine once CS is taken care of, IPTV servers will be hunted down.
I have to agree with sawdust on what he says about IPTV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawdust
I would hope that most dont use iptv. Could be getting them shelves into a whole lot of trouble. best just use the rest of the other satellites and what ever little can be seen is better than ending up getting into trouble with your own internet.
Talks.
Movies,Rest of Kids Channels and Music/Do***entary/Entrainment Channels should be gone by end of the month or Next month at the latest :nopity:
And Sure Murdock was cute enuff to darken The Sly Sport Channel before Sunday's Final EPL Games and Upcoming GAA Games pretty much as expected
It does not bother me in the slightest however because i will still continue to watch Sky Sport in Full HD via Feeds
and im sure Box Office Feeds will continue as they have done for the past 10 years : ))
i have already cancelled my Sky Sub a month ago i'll keep Seperate BT/Eir Sport and Box Nation Sub for as long as it lasts .
But IPTV i hope will keep going and hopefully by end of the summer someone might be able to break this new iCAM encryption system even tho' it looks highly unlikely at this moment : ))