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garypjackson
On our wavelength
12 months ago
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When is sky sports not sky sports?

Recently I've watched tennis on various sky channels prior to them launching sky sports tennis.  Today on my tivo box I find no sky sports tennis SD and a greyed out tennis HD which I would expect as...
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    newapollo
    12 months ago

    Hi again garypjackson 

    Sorry, I misunderstood your last post < here>  I thought you had finally made the switch and changed to a 360 box.

    The tivo is an old box and is no longer issued to new customers. It  does have problems with iplayer  and red button functions.   You should be looking at  upgrading it to either a V6 or a 360.  The V6 uses the tivo interface the same as your current box, is faster, has double the storage and more apps. The red button works on all Sky Sports channels, with the exception of Sky Sports Tennis. As explained previous posts, Sky Sports Tennis multiplered button  HD streams (& additional interactive content) are provided by a different IP driven method which is only available on the newer 360 and Stream (horizon based) boxes.

    So if you want that additional functionality which is available on the Sky Sports Tennis channel (and a few more apps) then you need to upgrade to 360/Stream.  With Stream boxes you can only have one per property so they are unsuitable for multi room houses plus they don't have a hard drive for recording purposes.

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garypjackson
On our wavelength
12 months ago

I don't have a 360 at all, just a tivo

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newapollo
Very Insightful Person
12 months ago

Hi again garypjackson 

Sorry, I misunderstood your last post < here>  I thought you had finally made the switch and changed to a 360 box.

The tivo is an old box and is no longer issued to new customers. It  does have problems with iplayer  and red button functions.   You should be looking at  upgrading it to either a V6 or a 360.  The V6 uses the tivo interface the same as your current box, is faster, has double the storage and more apps. The red button works on all Sky Sports channels, with the exception of Sky Sports Tennis. As explained previous posts, Sky Sports Tennis multiplered button  HD streams (& additional interactive content) are provided by a different IP driven method which is only available on the newer 360 and Stream (horizon based) boxes.

So if you want that additional functionality which is available on the Sky Sports Tennis channel (and a few more apps) then you need to upgrade to 360/Stream.  With Stream boxes you can only have one per property so they are unsuitable for multi room houses plus they don't have a hard drive for recording purposes.