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Zippity: Too tight to spend an additional $4 a week?
Sucker you :(
timestyles: Given the recent goings on with Amazon deleting books on Kindle's remotely, I can see why Sky *might* have designed this. I'm thinking the messageboards on Trademe might be a better place to ask, simply because a greater number of people who might have recorded the game on their MySky HDi.
Thanks to patatrat for this:
"I don't see how him not spending an additional $208 a year for something [Sky Sport] he does not use makes him a sucker. "
patatrat: I don't see how him not spending an additional $208 a year for something he does not use makes him a sucker.
patatrat: As far as I can tell (and I'm not a sky subscriber here), he is recording a game for later.
Sky sport plays it live. Thats why people pay for it. To see it live.
Prime plays it delayed.
Now, he is recording the rugby to watch later. Live doesn't matter - recording it live will not improve his enjoyment, he is recording it. So, it makes sense to record it from the free one and not pay the 180 or whatever it is.
Why are people suggesting he pay or mocking him for not?
jmacg: Don't worry - Clevedon's inanities are water off a duck's back to me. His comment that he'd have to be paid to watch the Arts Channel pretty much sums him up, as does his 'portrait'.
Yes it does make sense to record from the free channel.
Paying $180 a year for something I'd rarely watch would be stupid. It would be equally silly for Clevedon to subscribe to the Arts Channel. Probably even sillier, because at least I understand rugby.
clevedon:jmacg:MarkX: There is absoulutely no way that Sky deliberately prevented you from recording the rugby.
How do you _know_ that?
I suspect Sky is capable of doing it. If I can remotely set things to record, I'm sure Sky has even more powerful remote capabilities. If they decided the rugby should not be recorded on Prime because of some contractual obligation, why wouldn't they retrospectively make the rugby game unrecordable - as they do for some other programmes - and broadcast a signal to all MySky HDi boxes to kill any recordings set up in the Planner. Remember, Sky is owned by Rupert Murdoch. How far would you trust him?
• I know what I set to record.
• I know it was listed as being there to record.
• I know it wasn't there later, when it should have been recorded.
Could it be a fault in my MySky HDi?
It's interesting that the Sky helpdesk people have not responded to my query about this. Perhaps they think I'm crazy or perhaps they are embarassed about something. Perhaps they just haven't got round to it yet, but it's been three days now.
I'd be in contact with Mulder & Scully next.
MarkX: Sky are probably capable of doing this but there is no logical reason as to why they would.
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