Sky Sports free on Sunday 26th Sept

ron3003 · 24 Sep 2010 at 15:46

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,15964_6378051,00.html

You can watch for free on Sunday if you're a Sky/Virgin etc customer without the sports package. Says it's not available on freeview but I suspect they mean Freesat ie still needs a viewing card to unscramble soft encryption. I could be wrong though so might be worth trying Freesat on the day.

Greenlizard0 · 24 Sep 2010 at 17:16

Useful for Wolves/Villa/Newcastle/Stoke fans.

Infam0us · 24 Sep 2010 at 19:30

Pool playing on Saturday. Not to worry have Sky Spotys anyway

Phil99 · 24 Sep 2010 at 21:19

ron3003 said:
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,15964_6378051,00.html

You can watch for free on Sunday if you're a Sky/Virgin etc customer without the sports package. Says it's not available on freeview but I suspect they mean Freesat ie still needs a viewing card to unscramble soft encryption. I could be wrong though so might be worth trying Freesat on the day.

Sky Sports is now available on TopUpTV (same platform as Freeview), so they probably mean that. Typically these free days aren't available to Freesat viewers either though.

Sho · 25 Sep 2010 at 13:32

Cheers.....

nicktay2605 · 26 Sep 2010 at 16:35

Quick question on this free day, if I record something that is on Sky Sports will I still be able to watch it after the free day has expired or will it tell me I need to buy the sports package? I want to watch the two NFL games that are on but don't really want to sit through all the interruptions, ad breaks etc.

One More Solo · 26 Sep 2010 at 16:47

nicktay2605 said:
Quick question on this free day, if I record something that is on Sky Sports will I still be able to watch it after the free day has expired or will it tell me I need to buy the sports package? I want to watch the two NFL games that are on but don't really want to sit through all the interruptions, ad breaks etc.

Yes on Virgin, no on Sky.

nicktay2605 · 26 Sep 2010 at 16:58

One More Solo said:
Yes on Virgin, no on Sky.

Sorry, do you mean no I won't be able to watch it or no it won't ask me to upgrade? I'm on Sky by the way.

ThundyCat · 26 Sep 2010 at 17:06

If recorded on Sky you will not be able to watch the recording.

TC.

nicktay2605 · 26 Sep 2010 at 17:11

Aw that sucks, will have to watch the whole thing or catch the highlights online.

sc(+)pe · 26 Sep 2010 at 22:16

I was gonna get the sports package put on to my Virgin package today to watch the Falcons vs Saints game although Sky came up trumps with the free day and wow, what a freaking game.