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I know that you can now get Sky on Xbox - providing that you subscribe or pay for multi room on your existing subscription. But do they have to be used in the same house....? Unofficially I mean!

Hypothetically speaking, if you have a mate just a few doors down the road who has Sky then can you pay for multi room and use his subscription on your xbox...?

Haven't a scooby Mick!

But welcome back - good to hear from you again. How's things, mate?

I would have thought so.

An X-box is pretty similar to a PC in it's most basic form right? I manage to use the sky player from my work PC.

And that's about 5 or 6 miles from my house.

DB10GOONER wrote:Haven't a scooby Mick!

But welcome back - good to hear from you again. How's things, mate?

Things good. Not been to that many games this season - but did go to up to Man City for the league game (and appeared in the picture in the Sun!) and will be at Anfield next week. Stopped coming on here for a while when I got fed up with all the pre-season whingeing....then I look on here and see mid-season whingeing ....!

I understand that the old dodgybox that just about everyone was using in Ireland to watch cable for free has now been totally outlawed....took them time to catch up. Did that effect you?

Hello MK!

This won't work with Sky!

You will find on the small print for a multi-room contract that each box has to be connected to a working telephone line with the same telephone number and registered at the same address.

What Sky do is everyday they "ping" your box (don't get excited DB10) to see if it is connected to the line. If they don't get a ping back on two occasions they start charging you for two seperate full packages rather than the extra 10 quid for multiroom. They will of course do this without telling you and you will only find out about this the hard way when the statement arrives.

Trust me I know!

In my last house we had multiroom with two boxes connected to two phone outlets on the same number. The kids broke the phone connection in the room they used to watch TV. As we didnt use it for a phone or use the interactive Sky services in that room I forgot ( ) to repair it.

Only when the bill came through the next month did I find out I had to pay double and no Sky would accept my explanation.

Their reasoning is that they have had so many cases of people living next door to each other sharing a cheap multiroom package conning them that they just won't accept it any other way and will not accept excuses. Argue with them and they tell you its in the contract small print that you should of read. Which of course it is in insect size text.

So in summary............erm, no it won't work!

on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of *word censored*
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

match of the day for me and I feel agrieved I have to pay for that

Foreign satellite is the way forward, that way you never miss a game even if you can't make it to the actual match.

greengooner wrote:on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of c**ts
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

Can't you just become a new customer again now?

RaM wrote:

greengooner wrote:on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of c**ts
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

Can't you just become a new customer again now?

no, not for twelve months at least, i agreed to this when i first got it years ago.
they also have my landline number because its connected to the sky box so i cant use my wifes name to reapply
not worried to be honest, most games are on the web now so i will survive

MK Gould wrote:

DB10GOONER wrote:Haven't a scooby Mick!

But welcome back - good to hear from you again. How's things, mate?

Things good. Not been to that many games this season - but did go to up to Man City for the league game (and appeared in the picture in the Sun!) and will be at Anfield next week. Stopped coming on here for a while when I got fed up with all the pre-season whingeing....then I look on here and see mid-season whingeing ....!

I understand that the old dodgybox that just about everyone was using in Ireland to watch cable for free has now been totally outlawed....took them time to catch up. Did that effect you?

Nah - I have "honest" Sky+ so never delved into the dodgybox! Few of my mates are still crying about having to pay for cable now.

Now what was this getting your box "pinged" that Percy mentioned??!!

JMascis666 wrote:Foreign satellite is the way forward, that way you never miss a game even if you can't make it to the actual match.

Which foreign channels do you subscribe to? Been considering getting the foreign channels for a while, but there are millions of different subscriptions to choose from

greengooner wrote:on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of c**ts
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

Yep, I coming round to your way of thinking and I'm ready to kick SKY into fucking touch.... bunch of *word censored*... and a crowd also G.G.

franksav63 wrote:

greengooner wrote:on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of c**ts
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

Yep, I coming round to your way of thinking and I'm ready to kick SKY into fucking touch.... bunch of c**ts... and a crowd also G.G.

Find a drunken Irishman with a non-working dodgy box..... They still work over here (for now). (apparently) ( )

digger wrote:

franksav63 wrote:

greengooner wrote:on an unrelated topic

sky are a crowd of c**ts
offering sky plus and sky hd to new custumers and offering fuck all to existing ones, have had sky for seven years and told them to shove it up their rectum today

back to radio five for me

Yep, I coming round to your way of thinking and I'm ready to kick SKY into fucking touch.... bunch of c**ts... and a crowd also G.G.

Find a drunken Irishman with a non-working dodgy box..... They still work over here (for now). (apparently) ( )

The D-box's aren't. They're now updating them twice daily, instead of once in a blue moon..