FREE!! Sky Plus - and other sky info

brjattwood

This is the story of my Sky Plus box.
3 years ago I bought a 160Gb sky plus box. After 6 months we moved to house in which I could not have a sky dish fitted so my box sat under the sofa. One day i ran out of hard drive space on my PC so I took the disk out of the Sky box and used it in my PC. 2.5 years later I moved again to a house that had A satellite dish previously used for Sky Plus already fitted. I bought a new PC and took my old sky hardrive out of my PC and put it back in the sky box.

I did a full systems reset. This is the thing that Sky will make you queue for to have their techie people tell you how to do it. All it is, is go to the system set-up menu enter 0, 1, select on your remote and the system does a full reset.

My hardrive burst back into life! my old sky card from 3 years ago was still in the box and I found myself with most freeview channels plus more, The 'ZONE' channels for example and working sky plus!!! series link and everything.

The sad part of the story is that I have now weakened and gone back to sky because of sky sports. But if you find yourself with an old sky card, a Sky Plus box and the satellite connection why not try what I did.

The other thing to remember is adding a bigger harddrive is very straight forward. Just make sure you select a good brand of drive that is reliable and quiet.

Avoriaz

I think one of two things happened.

Either Sky forget to send the disabling code when you cancelled your subscription. This happens very occasionally.

Or maybe you had disconnected the box for so long that the disabling code was no longer being sent when you turned it back on. I don’t know for how long Sky keep sending the disabling code.

I doubt if it is a reliable method of getting free Sky.

OK_Sauce

Sounds like the card had reverted to a FTV card. Aren't the Zone channels FTA anyway?