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Depending what box they were in when they were swapped to a white card, it appears some still allow certain Sky boxes to record & play FTA channels.

I don't believe this is a recent finding, so I'm still baffled as to why there is a sudden demand for them.
yes, thats exactly why, i have had 3 of the buggers and they were all inactive !
 

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Depending what box they were in when they were swapped to a white card, it appears some still allow certain Sky boxes to record & play FTA channels.

I don't believe this is a recent finding, so I'm still baffled as to why there is a sudden demand for them.
The one I managed to get some testing on last night before the box quit totally gave the message "no Sky+ entitlements on the card" so as I surmised in a previous post that one is useless.
 

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yes, thats exactly why, i have had 3 of the buggers and they were all inactive !
Loads of them would never have been in a Sky+ box, so would never have had the recording / placback added to them in the first place. Its only fairly recently that single tuner boxes have more or less disappeared.
 

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Nah

Free recording on the fta channels possibly (if you are lucky with the card), but free Sky - absolutely not. If it was possible to get freebies like that it would be all over the internet & we would all be doing it
 

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Point us a a RELIABLE source how to do it and I will gladly give you one of my old cards once Ive proved the concept :D

Cant say fairer than that.
 

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free sky+ features then
As Ive already posted half an hour ago not all yellow house cards will work. It HAS to have been in an active Sky+ box. If it was in a single tuner box (and a huge amount of them will have been) the Sky+ wont have been enabled on it in the first place.

Also there is this scenario. When our last single tuner box died we got a Sky+ box - but it was quite a few years before I bothered getting the recording turned on as we never saw any point - so any yellow card in that box wont be active even though it was in a Sky+ box..... We wont have been the only person not to bother.
 

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Depending what box they were in when they were swapped to a white card, it appears some still allow certain Sky boxes to record & play FTA channels.

I don't believe this is a recent finding, so I'm still baffled as to why there is a sudden demand for them.
very few record now a days anyway
 

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This yellow house card is growing like digital currency :-doh
 

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Isn't it easier to just get a modern recording box? I know Sky boxes are cheap as chips but they are awkward to use without a sub... Even with the right card.
 
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As Ive already posted half an hour ago not all yellow house cards will work. It HAS to have been in an active Sky+ box. If it was in a single tuner box (and a huge amount of them will have been) the Sky+ wont have been enabled on it in the first place.

Also there is this scenario. When our last single tuner box died we got a Sky+ box - but it was quite a few years before I bothered getting the recording turned on as we never saw any point - so any yellow card in that box wont be active even though it was in a Sky+ box..... We wont have been the only person not to bother.
I know that, i am just putting out a feeler to see if anyone has one from a sky+ box
 

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The one I managed to get some testing on last night before the box quit totally gave the message "no Sky+ entitlements on the card" so as I surmised in a previous post that one is useless.
Mine works in a Pace TDS850NB HD box :Y
 
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