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<blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 705167" data-attributes="member: 339480">I have a basic Sky digibox, but haven't had a valid viewing card since the switch to the new cards a few months ago. For £20 (the charge for a new card) I can live without Channel 5 (which is not available here on analogue) until the terrestrial transmitter goes digital next April!I bought a s/h Sky+ box at the weekend, thinking it would give me hard-drive recording and, hopefully, the ability to set it up to make unattended recordings on different channels (not simultaneously, obviously). However anything to do with recording gives the &quot;Insert viewing card&quot; message, so in fact I can do nothing I couldn't do with the basic box.Presumably there is no way round this problem, so I have wasted my money! If I did fork out the £20 for a new viewing card, would I be able to set up programmed hard-drive recordings? I've read elsewhere that this would need a monthly £10 subscription, which I wouldn't consider. I only have a single output LNB, so I'm not interested in the full Sky+ PVR features, just the ability to make programmed hard-drive recordings.Thanks,Steve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eccles, post: 705167, member: 339480"] I have a basic Sky digibox, but haven't had a valid viewing card since the switch to the new cards a few months ago. For £20 (the charge for a new card) I can live without Channel 5 (which is not available here on analogue) until the terrestrial transmitter goes digital next April! I bought a s/h Sky+ box at the weekend, thinking it would give me hard-drive recording and, hopefully, the ability to set it up to make unattended recordings on different channels (not simultaneously, obviously). However anything to do with recording gives the "Insert viewing card" message, so in fact I can do nothing I couldn't do with the basic box. Presumably there is no way round this problem, so I have wasted my money! If I did fork out the £20 for a new viewing card, would I be able to set up programmed hard-drive recordings? I've read elsewhere that this would need a monthly £10 subscription, which I wouldn't consider. I only have a single output LNB, so I'm not interested in the full Sky+ PVR features, just the ability to make programmed hard-drive recordings. Thanks, Steve. [/QUOTE]

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