V HD Free Sky Sports Weekend 2011

Ouch · 23-09-2011, 21:18

The other thread on this forum is about the one day free last year.

This year it's free from 6am Saturday Sept 24 until 6am Monday Sept 26.

The premier/championship league football on offer is:

Man City v. Everton

QPR v. Villa

Cardiff v. Leicester

(ESPN have the Stoke v. Man Utd game)

Should be good, although as a Villa fan I probably wont feel the same way at 6pm on Sunday.

Edit: Heres a link http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...178416,00.html

chris123 · 23-09-2011, 21:32

i agree as a villa fan its good news¬¬¬

djmagnifique · 23-09-2011, 23:21

Any cricket on?

v0id · 23-09-2011, 23:23

Surprise surprise, no 3pm kick offs on SS channels.
And they wonder why people continue to stream games/events off the internet, or pubs want to show them via (cheaper) foreign satellite services.

gazzae · 23-09-2011, 23:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by v0id

Surprise surprise, no 3pm kick offs on SS channels.
And they wonder why people continue to stream games/events off the internet, or pubs want to show them via (cheaper) foreign satellite services.

Not really a surprise as they aren't allowed to show any 3pm games.

Hurdy · 24-09-2011, 00:03

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Originally Posted by chris123

i agree as a villa fan its good news¬¬¬

Nah! we'll lose.

LondonRoad · 24-09-2011, 00:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by v0id

Surprise surprise, no 3pm kick offs on SS channels.
And they wonder why people continue to stream games/events off the internet, or pubs want to show them via (cheaper) foreign satellite services.

There are plenty of live 3pm kick offs without having to resort to subscribing to SS.
However it does involve you having to physically find your way to your local football stadium.
On the plus side it's in 3D and you don't have to wear glasses.

zekeisaszekedoes · 24-09-2011, 00:46

As simple as turning on the channel during the period it's free, even if it's not on your package? On Virgin Media surely not!

24-09-2011, 08:40

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Originally Posted by djmagnifique

Any cricket on?

Yes a 20/20 match on sunday at 6.25pm on sky sports 1/HD1 England v West Indies.

Fspiders · 24-09-2011, 14:03

Don't think many people will be impressed with the sky sports 2 hd channel watching the match as it's done nothing but pixel-ate. Noticed this happening on a lot of the hd channels this last week.

zekeisaszekedoes · 24-09-2011, 15:10

Sadly this is the drawback of having all streams in MPEG-2 for backward compatibility with all the STB CPEs on the VM network. The trick is to enable the MPEG noise filter on your TV if you have one, just at a low setting so you don't get lots of smearing. That helps. Also, you're probably more likely to notice aliasing like that if your TV has a 100hz refresh rate or above, because superior motion compensation on those sets shows up blockiness caused by fast camera motion in sports like F1.

**Maggy** · 24-09-2011, 20:12

Damnation!..Just as well there is BA on for me to watch anyway..

carbon60 · 24-09-2011, 22:30

Match Choice doesn't seem to work for me. I get a 'Not Authorised' message and then Sky Sports 2 stopped working with the same message. I had to change to a different channel and back again to fix it. I assume it's a Free Weekend limitation.

hansi · 25-09-2011, 07:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fspiders

Don't think many people will be impressed with the sky sports 2 hd channel watching the match as it's done nothing but pixel-ate. Noticed this happening on a lot of the hd channels this last week.

No problem here. Excellent picture.

colin25 · 25-09-2011, 09:15

I have all the sports..and for something to watch, Solheim Cup has been good, and I'm not an advocate for woman's sports