If your Sky+HD box is still in support you can still receive EPG updates and perform a software update yourself without a TV subscription.

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Sky bought Amstrad so they could have their own hardware development division to develop new Satellite boxes ( Sky Q) made in-house. The EPG remains the same unfortunately so you will have to learn which channels you can watch (FreeSat) and which are subscription only as you are unable to edit the EPG and you can only flag 50 favourites.This guide was written to provide you with a few helpful steps so that you could try and resolve the problem yourself.

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Tip: If you have to perform a system reset but you can still see your scheduled programs list, I highly recommend using a digital camera (or your smartphone camera) and advancing each page in your schedule while taking photos so that you can easily rebuild your schedule later.This is the equivalent of a PC's on-board battery running out of juice and therefore being unable to remember the date and time.

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Or, you could extend your box's life by inserting a new hard drive and performing a system reset to format it and use it as your new storage device. First one was a Amstrad/Fidelity 16 channel receiver with separate Videocrypt decoder, which we had for only 6 weeks as my father did not like the programme choice, I was 15 at the time, we switched to 4 channel cable, In 1993 we got a Nokia Sat 1500 (Pace SS 9000 clone) which broke down after 2 years, we got it repaired but suffered a poor picture on Sky Pay Channels, replaced that with a Pace Prima in 1997 after the Nokia kept breaking down, had that until my parents split up in 1999 and me and mother moved out, Got Sky Digital in 1999 which was a Pace 2200, for the lounge and got a second hand Pace MSS 200 at a car boot sale for my bedroom and was given a Analogue Sky Card and a JVC TC-200, when my mate upgraded to digital, used the card until Sky analogue closed down but kept using the receivers, Was given a couple of 60 cm dishes from old Sky Installs, Bought a receiver and 80cm dish pack from Lidl's in 2001 and bought a 100 cm dish in 2002 which came with a Pace MSS 1000 and D2-Mac decoder. For some reason Sky have not added the ability to detect automated clashes to their Sky box firmware.

Choose the ‘Advanced Settings’ option; you will be asked for a PIN number (0000 for the older decoders, the first four digits of your account number for the newer models.

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I had an Amstrad fitted on the 19th Dec and my thirst thoughts were that its quiet, goodish HD, no failed recordings, 70 signal strength etc. When a connection has been successfully made the wireless LED light on the front of the box while go from flashing amber to solid amber. Taking Movies as an example, the Channels thumbnail shows you the movies channels and what’s on now, Recordings takes you directly to all your movies in your planner and On Demand lets you browse the movies in Anytime or Anytime+. If however you are trying a new set-up or are routing your video-out connection through multiple devices or into a recording device then you may have triggered the HDCP anti-piracy mechanism.Sky+HD has been around for over a decade now and there are many thousands of people still out there in possession of these boxes.