Sky Question

[burns76]

I have Sky+ with the Movies package. My parents have normal Sky (without the +), with entertainment package and no Movies or Sports.

I'll be visiting them at some point this weekend and there are a couple of movies on Premiere which they fancied watching.

So what I was wondering is, would it be possible for me to take my card to their house, stick it in their Sky box and access the Movie Channels? And will it make any difference that mine is Sky+ whereas they have just the normal box?

[mically]

burns76 said:

I have Sky+ with the Movies package. My parents have normal Sky (without the +), with entertainment package and no Movies or Sports.

I'll be visiting them at some point this weekend and there are a couple of movies on Premiere which they fancied watching.

So what I was wondering is, would it be possible for me to take my card to their house, stick it in their Sky box and access the Movie Channels? And will it make any difference that mine is Sky+ whereas they have just the normal box?

Yes.
I'm unsure of the technical answer, but it is the card which authorises your viewing rights, not the box.

[burns76]

Super, many thanks for the answer!

[wiffmaster]

We stopped subscribing to Sky years ago (so this may now be out of date), but the viewing card used to be paired to the box (i.e. your card will only work correctly in your box). If you put it in another unpaired box (the one at your parents' place) then it'll throw up an error message. So in other words, it won't work unless you take your box along as well!

[cjs]

+1

No is the technical answer!

The cards are paired to the box, they will not work in another box. Your only option is to take your Sky box and card over and plug into there set up.

Edited by cjs on Friday 31st December 10:47

[elster]

You can take a card and use it in another box.

I do with my friends.

[Gav147]

As the last two have posted I doubt it will work unless you take your box as well.

When we bought a plus box I installed it and tried simply switching the card from our old box to the plus box which didn't work. Had to ring sky and get them to "pair" the card to the new box to get it to work.

[twinturboz]

Won't work as others have said the card needs to be paired to the box. However although not the same as watching it on tv, unless you can connect the laptop to the tv, you could take a laptop with you and use sky player to watch the film.

[BigBen]

You can pair your card with other boxes using the engineering / installer menu on your sky box. Search the forums at digitalspy.co.uk or .com I can't recall which for details.