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    What makes a channel disappear and is there a recipe to get it back again?

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    This has been discussed by a number of people on the forum "Where has 'x' channel gone?" etc. but I'm curious. We often "lose" say Nick.Jr or a.n.other channel. In the case of Nick it sometimes goes from its usual Sky Channel 615 to a four digit channel beginning 13 - so 1394 or something. Then a week or so later it might come back to 614 and all will be well again without any manual intervention on our part (albeit we have EPG updates & autobouquet running daily at 4 in the morning).

    Currently Sky One HD (Ch.106) has gone. I'm sure if I search around the EPG for the programme showing on Sky One HD, I'll find its new channel and be able to call it up. Similarly Sky Movies Premiere HD seems to have wandered off and that was fine a couple of days back. It's not an HD thing - for example all the other Sky HD channels like sport, other Sky movie HD channels etc. etc. are fine.

    Manually running an automatic scan of channels and re-running auto-bouquet-maker has no obvious effect (doesn't fix the problem). I'd love to know what causes channels to move about and even better if anyone has a suggestion for what I can do to investigate my setup / stop it happening / or fix things I'd be really grateful.

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    Ah, right. Thanks. Will they ever return? Is this a S*y technical issue or something?

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    They have changed the encryption system so that you can only receive them with an official Sky receiver even if you have the correct subscription card
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    Ouch! So the market for 3rd party (better) receivers in order to watch S*you is now dead? :-( Sad news indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steveharman View Post
    Ouch! So the market for 3rd party (better) receivers in order to watch S*you is now dead? :-( Sad news indeed.
    Not at all, there is much more than Sky available
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    For an average user in the UK with a static dish that is not the case.

    I'm actually looking forward to things getting a little more "hobby" based as CS just got way to commercial.

    This is why we can't have nice things :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by steveharman View Post
    Ouch! So the market for 3rd party (better) receivers in order to watch S*you is now dead? :-( Sad news indeed.
    Quote Originally Posted by Maxwell View Post
    Not at all, there is much more than Sky available
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    For an average user in the UK with a static dish that is not the case.
    I don't agree. Look at what a 28.2 FTA scan gets you: much more than what I have to pay for in the Netherlands.
    By the looks of it many are addicted to Sky; that's the reason they can do this forbidden conditional sale.
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    The problem is sly have all the decent imho live sport as well then cherry picking foreign programmes that take off on terrestrial tv.

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    Turn your dish round to 19 or 13, or if you have a zone 2 dish put a mono bloc on it and get both, there is loads of quality HD sports, English movies etc on those two birds.

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    You Like $ly Atlantic? It was only ever launched to stop HBO launching in the UK, move your dish and find HBO elswhere...

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    Quote Originally Posted by zoro25 View Post
    For an average user in the UK with a static dish that is not the case.
    Precisely - show me where I can subscribe to 90% of Barclays Premier League games, F1 and English films before they hit Netflix with my static Sky dish and I'll sign up. Meantime I'm a Sky subscriber with a GigaBlue Quad who's having his channels pulled from him by... the people I'm paying in order to receive the channels ($ky).

    Thanks a bunch Mr.Murdoch & friends. :-(

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    Apparently you, the UK-consumers, accept this. Otherwise it wouldn't happen.

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    That might have been true if (a) As a customer I'd been asked / contacted / in any way informed by $ky before the channels simply started to vanish or (b) had any means of getting them to retract the steps they've taken (LOL!).

    Is it that the new encryption is forever linked to $ky hardware only by some means, or is it that the encryption now in use isn't (yet?) available on non-$ky hardware?

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    A small fact for you guys..

    British people in general.. England, Scotland Wales and N. Ireland..

    Fact of the matter is.. Until we all as British people stand up against this.. Then you will NEVER see change..

    Only way to get change is for ALL British people to stand up together.. and fight this..

    Just one problem.. British WONT.. NEVER HAVE DONE.. NOR EVER WILL DO stick together..

    Always too much farting around and squabbling over whats left..

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    Quote Originally Posted by steveharman View Post
    That might have been true if (a) As a customer I'd been asked / contacted / in any way informed by $ky before the channels simply started to vanish or (b) had any means of getting them to retract the steps they've taken (LOL!).
    What do you think would happen if all (or at least very many) Sky subscriptions would be cancelled for the sole reason of the forbidden conditional sale? Pretty sure Mr. R. would feel that in his pocket.

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