13-12-2017, 11:11
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Rise above the players
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wokingham
Services: 2 V6 boxes with 360 software, Now, ITVX, Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate+, Apple+, Disney+, Paramount +,
Posts: 14,589
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Re: Recordings disappearing.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
It does work differently.
Sky boxes record the encrypted stream directly off the satellite, then descramble it when you play the recording back. So you don't need the channel entitlement to record, but you do to play back.
On VM boxes, the stream is descrambled at the time of recording. So you do need entitlement to record, but not, in general, to play back. The exception is the Sky-owned channels, where the channel entitlement is also checked on playback. This is a contractual requirement from Sky.
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Thank you, spiderplant; at least I know I'm not going mad quite yet!
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