Sky Sports on Now TV

Is it still true that you can't get Sky Sports on Now TV on You View?

According to the official Nowtv statement on their website:
Due to the Live TV restrictions that are currently on YouView, we won’t have any TV channels or box sets being shown on YouView.
Several people have questioned why Now TV cannot now offer live channels given that recent Youview software updates enable this to occur.
Sky/Now TV do have an arrangement whereby Sky Sports is available thru the Talk Talk Player.
Recent media articles have speculated over Sky's concerns about the costs of operating its Now TV services on Youview.

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Uk users; sky sports etc now available (costs)

A few weeks ago none of the major phone providers worked with the nokia n8, when it came to on demand TV. but now that has been sorted. Orange, for example, gives you all the sky sports channels plus espn for £6 a month (free first month trial). Only draw back is you are limited to a fair usage policy of one gig (which they say is about 20 hours worth of live sports, at their resolution). Virgin media also have reported that they will release an n8 app in November, but so far we are still waiting. Just posting this as I know some UK n8 users would be interested. if anyone has info on the virgin app or experience with live sky on their phones please reply. cheers

Have you tried the sky app from another touch model with the N8 to see if it works?
You can get the app here:
http://p.wecomm.com/prov/prov.action?releaseId=10
In case you are wondering who wecomm are they are the people who make the sky apps so these are safe to use.

Sky Sports - Now TV Error

I've paid for this service to watch the F1, it's taken my payment but when I try and watch I get a message saying Error, Try again later. Not a lot of use for a live event.
I've tried resetting the Apple TV which made no difference. I want a refund but don't know how to go about it, please help.

Pacco65 wrote:
Personally I still think that Sky Sports is decent value for money, and when you consider the range of sports covered it is anything BUT inferior in my view. Unless anyone can tell me a different provider that has more channels covering more sports? Or even the same amount? Like a lot of things, value for money is a totally subjective measure and will vary wildly from individual to individual. @Annie+UK and @daveNOS are perfectly right at the end of the day though. If you no longer consider something to be value for money then discussing it on a forum is going to do absolutely nothing to change the situation. That will only be changed when enough people hit Sky in the wallet and walk away. At the moment though, judging by the recent published figures, Sky are doing very nicely thank you very much, so little is likely to change. I think sky sports at the moment is the inferior product for the football fan. BT today broadcast Man Utd vs Spurs in Ultra HD. BT are also going to show every single CL game in HD, something sky never did in 9 years of having HD available. Sky, of course, have the majority of the premier league but the the average football fan who likes to watch a variety of football is now better off choosing BT if he can only have one. I have said it before, but it bears repeating.....the best value deal for, say, a Man Utd fan or a Chelsea fan is to get BT sport and then add single NOW TV passes for when their team is on sky.

Sky sports now an inferior product

Thoughts please,
My opinion is now that sky don't have lost out on champions league its not the product it once was, we used to 2 channels with all the football and now we have 5 with <REMOVED>
Sky you need to sort this out as if you have Virginia media and subscribe to the sky sports package it includes BT sport an option that costs us 22 a month....... Not on sky
Also if you're Scottish forget setting any SPL as they are all on BT or if you're into moto gp that's also on BT don't even get me started on ESPN something that also come in the Virginia media pack, sky sports package if taken with sky now sucks by a long way.
Moderator action - removed inappropriate language as per house rules.

Pacco65 wrote:
Personally I still think that Sky Sports is decent value for money, and when you consider the range of sports covered it is anything BUT inferior in my view. Unless anyone can tell me a different provider that has more channels covering more sports? Or even the same amount? Like a lot of things, value for money is a totally subjective measure and will vary wildly from individual to individual. @Annie+UK and @daveNOS are perfectly right at the end of the day though. If you no longer consider something to be value for money then discussing it on a forum is going to do absolutely nothing to change the situation. That will only be changed when enough people hit Sky in the wallet and walk away. At the moment though, judging by the recent published figures, Sky are doing very nicely thank you very much, so little is likely to change. I think sky sports at the moment is the inferior product for the football fan. BT today broadcast Man Utd vs Spurs in Ultra HD. BT are also going to show every single CL game in HD, something sky never did in 9 years of having HD available. Sky, of course, have the majority of the premier league but the the average football fan who likes to watch a variety of football is now better off choosing BT if he can only have one. I have said it before, but it bears repeating.....the best value deal for, say, a Man Utd fan or a Chelsea fan is to get BT sport and then add single NOW TV passes for when their team is on sky.

Sky Sports 1 and 2 and BT in general - Absolutely ...

I would like to start by stating this will be a bit of an essay but I hope anyone who opens this thread up takes the time and consideration to read and takes it on-board, I am particurlarly aiming that at prospective BT customers who may be here to consider taking up a contract with BT, I strongly urge you to NOT DO THIS and to use my experience as the leading reason why.
We have been BT customers since we moved into our current property back in 2003, we have the current full package on offer, BT Infinity, with the Sky Sports and ESPN upgrades and the full On Demand and Broadband services. We have experienced numerous problems over the past three to four years with connectivity issues. The broadband drops in and out all the time, it's hard to put a level of consistency on this but on some days it can drop out 25-30 times, it can happen a lot at the weekend some weeks or weekdays on the others or both, the timing varies, it doesn't appear to be reflective of particurlar weather conditions, not that this should really matter anyway but we've been investigating all possible lines of enquiry as to why the problems keep happening, by my calculation we've had 18 engineers out to visit the property, I myself, and this does not include the other numerous phone calls made by fellow family members, have called and reported the problem to BT at least 50 times in this time period, I've taken days off work to wait for engineers, I've unplugged and reset my hub more times than I care to remember, we've had the hub itself replaced four times, the Vision box replaced twice, the lines re-routed through our house twice and more e-mails and letters than I reckon President Barack Obama sends in one year in office!
And so far, to date, and I am talking about in the last five days, the problem still exists! The only way to get the connection back is to turn the hub off and back on again, or use the reset button, which we all know disrupts the hub and often results in further faults down the line, I would love to not have to do this but given we're paying for 24/7 internet access I should not have to sit around waiting, in most cases, up to 3-4 hours for the signal to return to the hub by itself (I know, I've timed it, something else I've wated much of my own time doing). The lights don't flash or change colour on the hub either when this problem occurs (the hub should register lack of connection, with the lights going from blue to either flashing blue or, in most cases, red, just for the record they stay blue but we have used various devices in this house ranging from state-of-the-art, brand-new laptops to tablets to i-phones to desktops and the problem occurs the same for everyone so before I get one of the many excuses I've already had from BT that it's a potential "device problem" you can forget that one, been there, done that!).
I have urged, and urged, and urged the engineers, the people I speak to one the phone, the personal advisors our case has been passed on too, to look at potential problems outside our property i.e. the exchange. This has been rebuffed time and time again. "It's not the problem sir, the problem is here sir, the problem is not our fault sir" etc. etc. etc. Well, guess what....
We've just received a phone call informing us that, from June 10th in our area, due to issues with the exchange being able to hold the signal, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 will no longer be avaliable on our BT package. As huge cricket fans, from a personal perspective, first off, this is infuriating. The person we spoke too also claimed Sky have "pulled the plug" on the package so, also, I'm a little confused as too which is the actual issue here resulting in the loss of Sky Sports? That you've known all along that there has been problem in my local area with the exchange and the signal it can hold, or that Sky have pulled the rights to their sports package? Or perhaps that you spent £757 million recently on a new TV rights package for Premiership football for two new BT Sports channels (those ones you see currently advertised, on, of all channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2!) and actually are just quite happy to cut customers out who have lined your pockets with substantial monthly fees for programming you knew full well didn't work when you first signed contracts with Sky to pick it up, and then distributed to customers? Are you seriously telling me after, by my calculation, three years, you didn't know Sky Sports 1 and 2 didn't work in my local area, yet carried on debiting bank accounts, advertising the channels, supplying them and then, now, with less than a month's notice, you've pulled the plug? That takes me right back to the title of my message - absolutely disgraceful.
I should make it clear at this point we have experienced problems with BT Vision too, albeit not lately, thank God, although that is not to say the problems wouldn't return. Signal dropping in and out, screen crackling and dropping out, black screens frequently on SS1, SS2 and ESPN etc. As for the On Demand service, that is obviously effected by the hub signal dropping in and out, the Vision box also does not appear to correlate with the hub when the signal returns and remains offline for a further amount of time, even when it is disconnected and then reconnected. It is constantly buffering too when the signal is low. Also, one other, far more minor point, you've been advertising 'red button coming soon' now for about three months!? I don't know what your definition of 'coming soon' is, but it's not the same as mine I can assure you, and I'm willing to bet quite a few others too!
Can you give me a good reason why I shouldn't report you too Trading Standards for misleading and false advertising? For 3 years you've been selling us a Sky Sports package you know full well won't work properly in our local area, I don't blame you for Sky's monpoly on sport, but perhaps you can explain to me why you've given two answers that completely contradict each other to the future dealings with Sky Sports in our local area? Why have you not addressed the issues with the exchange for our connectivity problems, despite the fact your now claiming it is what is probably attributed to causing our issues with the two sports channels? Also, I have worked in customer service jobs and I know people wind the heck out of you on some days, but a significant portion of your "customer advisors" are rude and ignorant. You ring the freephone number, your on hold for half-a-century, you get put through to the call-centre in Bombay and you are treated with contempt, I actually feel sorry for the people who work out there, they are clearly reading from a script and lack in clear English Language skills, which is not their fault, it's yours. As for anyone who takes dispute with that, go and ask them a question next time like "how is your day?" They won't answer, they can't, it's not on their call sheet. The few I have dealt with who have clear use of the language are, as I said, rude and ignorant, often accusing me, quite clearly, of lying and of having not reported the problem, for me then to find out a later date when I speak to the technical deparment and to BT Openreach (and yes, I know they are two seperate companies) that date is not transferred correctly between the two which is why whoever you speak too in the call-centre usually only has a last referral point for you from some years ago, it's also quite clearly a deflection manouvre to keep you away from actually getting your problem resolved, paying Openreach to dispatch engineers if required and so you don't clog up the minimal amount of contactable phone numbers for the average customer that are based in the UK.
Failure to receive a suitable and acceptable answer to my queries will result in me having no other option but to consider taking the matter further, I am also inclined now to make it my work between now and the date of June 10th to persuade everyone I know and they know to stay as far away from your company as possible and the "services" you claim to provide.
Also, as huge cricket, and for that matter, NFL fans, maybe you should consider that many sports-viewers in this country aren't just about football. Yes I know that's where the money lies but there is profit to be made from other sports ventures too, I don't think you realize just how many fans you are leaving out in the cold over this move, the whole reason we, and we are just one example, subscribed to the Sky Sports package was for the cricket, and for the NFL. Two sports that are entirely monopolized by Sky, yes I realize, as I state earlier, that's not your fault, but why don't you show a bit of interest in them then? Why don't you be slightly different, you have over £700 million to spend on Premiership football but little else? If you want to attract more customers and build larger profit margins, you have to be more diverse and explore new options and directions to do this.
I'm sure some will say, "why not get Sky?" Well unfortunately we can't due to our location but at least Sky were up-front and honest enough to tell us this when they first came to do a consultation, one, that by the way, we had as a secondary option to BT due to the attractions of the On Demand package, that then wasn't offered by Sky. How sad it's come too this and what an awful way to treat loyal customers who have upgraded to the packages you have offered in all innocence to obtain a better and more fruitful service? Customers who have never been late with payments either and used the likes of the Box office service for both movies and music (when the latter was chargable) as well, the money you have had off us, and that is what we've received in return and yet, perhaps, the poorest reflection on us, is we have stuck it for so long, but we are at the end of our tethers now and utterly furious at the decisions we've learned today that I am going to ensure we get to the bottom of this.
Thank you for taking the time to read, what I appreciate, is a lengthy message. I didn't want to have to write this but it was the only way of making our problems and feelings clear, and I wanted to include everything so as not too mislead anyone myself.

Sadly as this is customer to customer forum you are only talking to fellow customers.
Perhaps it would be better to contact the Mods who are the only BT employees here,
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How do i change my device for Sky Sports Mobile TV

I have a new phone and need to register it with my Sky Sports Mobile TV app (Android). Please can someone from SKY help me ASAP! Thanks

Thanks so much! I called this number and spoke to someone who denied all knowledge of neededing to do this for SkySportsTV app; After inisisting I was eventually told that they could deal with it and was on hold for 30minutes waiting to be put through to another department, at which point I was cut off!!!! Any other ideas? The first phone call probably cost me a fortune; was on there for 54mins! Thanks PS The cricket starts now.....haha

Can't get viewing card to work! Sky Sports. 'VCN i...

Card arrived tuesday, but doesn't seem to work.....inserted right way up, in slot for over an hour on Sky sports channel, tried to activate online.... Keeps saying 'VCN is not the current card for support' .... Pls help as am really fed up now.
What does this mean & can anyone advise me?
Many thanks.

Hi TheChairman,
Strange, could you email in your account details and forum username and I'll take a look at this?
The email address is my profile, on my username to see it
Thanks,
Stephanie
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Question about Sky Sports F1

Hello, I am a big formula one fan and watch via the sky sports f1 channel however due to the sky price hikes & finances in general something has to give and with the rest of the sports channels not getting watched its been decided that the sports pack has to go to cut the bill.
i remember that in the past sky f1 channel was part of the variety hd package but they changed this so new customers could only get it as part of the sports pack. but i have friends who were on/still are on the old variety hd pack who were able to drop the sports pack but keep the f1 channel.
on the my sky section of the website it has me listed as been on "Variety with Sports HD", we have not changed anything on the tv packages for a number of years now so should still be on the old variety pack.
i'd just like to know if we are on the old variety pack & could indeed drop the sports pack but keep the f1 channel.
like i said at the lead i am a big f1 fan & really want to keep watching & i love what sky offer with there coverage and use the ipad app and red button goodies (whatever happened to there website streaming in-car video this year?) so really want to keep the sky f1 channel.
thank you in advance for any help

If you make any changes to the services. Past deal are invalidated and you only get the current packs at that time of change.... The top TV pack now includues HD by default... This means top TV pack Users Now get HD and on demand Boxsets included with out paying a seperate £10 HD fee, its allready added to the bundle for £6.... This replaced the other offers of extra channels... for the top TV deal... BskyB could issue updates to every account changing status but thats costs money and time... Its just easier to leave the old accounts with the same access rights and only alter new and updating users Sky card with the changed access levels.... The new top Tv bundle is called...

Sky Sports "No Info"

Ever since Sky Sports and ESPN were changed so they were delivered over Infinity I have had a problem recording.
Sky and ESPN have good pictures, so my Infinity speeds are adequate.
When I press the 'i', or 'select' buttons all I see is 'No Information Available'.
As there is no information available I cannot record. Even if I am watching the program I cannot use the 'record' button !
I have now missed two Lions rugby matches that were the sole reason for keeping my subscription.
Has anyone else had this problem and is there fix please ?

Having spent an unhappy hour trawling through the forums I found it ...remove the plug and reboot.
Why didn't I think of that.....
Apparently likely to happen again, probably after updates in October.

My Sky Sports Soccer 6 app has disappeared from my home page but still appears in the settings section but I can't delete it or open it

Sky Sports Soccer 6 app has recently updated but has now disappeared from the folder I had it in. I can still see it in the settings section but I can't open it or delete it?
Any ideas how I can solve this?

From you home screen, swipe down on the middle of the screen in order to get the Spotlight Search feature to appear at the top. Type in the name of the app. If the app appears in the search - tap on it and it should launch. After it launches, double tap the home button and close it. This explains how to close it.
iOS: Force an app to close - Support - Appl
After you close tha app, see if it shows up on one of your screens. If it still doesn't appear, reboot your iPad and then see if it shows up.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

Lost Sky Sports, rang Help line, lost will to live...

Hello all. Any mods listening? Please help. Along with others, found Sky Sports dead on me last night (see other thread). Rang India, poor bloke tried to help but had to plough through his standard tests and while he was doing that the phone went dead (and no, no-one rang back). So, I've tried the switch off- wait- restart-retune as recommended by the voice-over on the 0800 number, but still can't see Sky; I'm getting the Please Insert Viewing Card message again, just as before. Two questions: 1. will this keep happening? 2. Just what was the problem that led to this happening? Oh yes, and a third: how come the nice man in India didn't know anything about it?

Thanks for reply. The problem was the same as that described in other threads, including 'Sky Problems', if I remember the thread correctly. The screen was giving me the same message as I got when first registering it- PLEASE INSERT CARD... etc. When I did the switch-off/switch-on routine this morning, the box obviously downloaded a significant update. What is so frustrating is having to guess what's happening. There was obviously a serious and widespread problem; the message in the intro on the 0800 teccie help line said so. Now it's sorted I'm still none the wiser and still don't know how likely it is to happen again. The help guys cliamed not to know anything about any widespread problem and simply took me through their standard problem-solving routine (or rather, started to until the phone went dead). It's a great shame that BT produces services and stuff that are worth having but simply hasn't got the hang of communicating with customers. For example, why not put bulletins on known problems somewhere prominent on this web site? Anyway, that's enough whingeing, until the next time.

WARNING FOR VISION SKY SPORTS USERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

After being told i could cancel this at anytime when i added it on,i changed to
get it through my partners SKY cos it was better value as you get the full channels to Sky Sports4 .at the races etc.
Now when i noticed on the quarterly bill that i had been charged a extra month,i made a complaint and was told i had to
give them 30 days notice which i wasnt at any time.
I was told it was in the small print ,blah blah, but this is the best bit when they actually cut off the sky sports for the last 30 days,which in effect i was paying for.
Basically very very poor,cant wait till contracts up to change,so be warned people!!!

imjolly wrote:
I think that the OP has asked for his service to be cancelled now or a specific date but he has not given the required 28 days notice. BT have cancelled the service on the date requested but charged for the notice period. If the OP had been aware of the notice period as per T&C then he should have just deferred the cancellation date to the end of the notice period. That way he would have had the use of the service during the cancellation period
Err,
I actually understood every word of what you have posted above.
But, we don't know that. Yet, if it did happen as you describe above, then the above should have been pointed out to him (re the service would still be live for 30 days). Agree?
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Cancelling sky sports

Hi everyone,
I have tried 3 times now to cancel sky sports from my TV package without success. The first call was several weeks ago when I spoke to some guy who seemed to be having trouble cancelling it immediately and said he would ring the technical department - I hung on for ages and eventually got cut off without him getting back to me. Trusting that he would sort it out anyway I waited days but it didn't happen. I tried emailing next (3 times), got a automated response but no proper reply. Tried again by phone on 13th March - was told that it would be cancelled within an hour. It didn't happen. Tried again today by phone, again told the same thing. Guess what? Correct - it's still there. I am a pensioner and I can't afford to have to pay for something I don't want. I've read the other posts about losing ESPN as well - I hope this doesn't happen to me, if and when they finally manage to sort this out. After all, it can't be rocket science .... can it?

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Sky Sports & ESPN

Am I missing something here?
If you want Sky Sports & ESPN, the sports channels, you can't have Youview.
To have the sport channels you have to live in an Infinity enabled area.
The check on the web page to see if you are eligable throws up a Freeview search
How does a Freeview search know if you live in an Infinity enabled area?
(according to the search I can't get the sports channels - but I already do).
Am I really missing something?

TrickyDicky wrote:
Zulu I think you will also find that if you opt for BT Youview you can't have the Sports package (infinity or not) but look on the bright side BT Youview customers can have 5.1 surround sound, which I did have with my old Silver Vision box but cant have with my new Black Vision box ......... not yet anyway
TrickyD
Yes as this is now a Youview free area ... I was actually only refering to the BT Vision box system.
As for the Surround sound ... there is another thread - seems Youview didn't enable surround sound on their launch software and are delivering it at the end of the month.

Loss of Sky Sports 1 since signing up for Infinity

We changed over to Infinity as BT told w e would have to - otherwise we woukd lose access to our Sky Sports1 and ESPN channels. Since July 1st we have lost access to Sky Sports 1. We have spent in excess of 2 hrs now on the phone to BT trying to get this resolved. They tell us we should have it ? However no one seems able to sort out this issue. Why is it so hatd to get it resolved ? Is anyone else experiencing the same issues ? I feel like we have been conned by BT - they promise all these extras when you sign up for Infinity - however the reality has been different. I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way forward.

Sorry, I was in a rush this morning and didn't have time for a considered reply. As umpire indicates, this sounds like the wrong software on your BTTV box. I'm away from home at the moment, but from memory go to Help & Settings > Settings > System Information. The Middleware details should include 512 (or 256) followed by Multicast. If it doesn't say Multicast you won't get the broadband channels, including Sky Sports. (You won't get ESPN anyway until BT Sport is launched on 1 August.)
If that's the case I would go back to Sales and ask them to get it fixed. Call 0800 783 0056 and make out you want to order Infinity until you get to a human voice. Then explain you've recently upgraded to Infinity to retain your Sky Sports channel(s) on broadband but can't get them and have discovered that your software hasn't had the necessary update.
Be prepared to be told the only way to fix it is for them to re-order SS, a pain in the butt though probably best to go along with it. That's what happened to me, though in my case I already had the Multicast software and they went ahead and removed it! You couldn't make it up.
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