Sky Sports 1
 

Watching the footie on the above channel and a 10 digit number has just appeared on the bottom left of the screen, rather strange, anyone any idea why this is?

Re: Sky Sports 1
 

Your smart card number (or some variant of) so Sky can track you down in case you are streaming the game on the internet.

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http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...y/td-p/1456248

"As part of our Domestic Broadcast Security arrangements, a nine digit number may appear in the bottom left hand corner of screen for up to five minutes during live football broadcasts or sporting events. This is not related to your individual subscription and is generated automatically as part of the broadcast. It will not affect your viewing experience in any way"

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Interesting, thanks for the replies ....:)

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I bet a few streams shut down on the various sites when that appeared :LOL:

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Totally pointless though when AJ & AD Sports also offer English commentary. (as learnt from the pub not those streams :) )

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well no numbers appear on sky sports HD 1 OR 2 when I am watching football

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The VM statement is pretty disingenuous.

"This is not related to your individual subscription and is generated automatically as part of the broadcast." And yet it is being used to track down people streaming the stuff online so has to be linked to your subscription otherwise it would be useless in tracking people down.

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It blocked the positions in the F1 and has just blocked the number of chances stat on Sky Sports 1. How can they say it won't affect the viewing experience? It's incredibly distracting and blocks what is on the screen!

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The comments are always made by someone who hasn't even seen the issue, they're just reading off a script. Such is the care free nature of every company.

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it seems to be generated by the box itself, cant see how they can make it more suttle

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Somehow i don't think Virgin will have any choice with this request from sky.

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It appeared during the Liverpool V Newcastle game today. It's the first time I've noticed it. I'm glad I noticed this thread as I intended to give my tivo a reboot later on. :)

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It appeared during the Liverpool V Newcastle game today. It's the first time I've noticed it as well can we stop it what is it for anyway ? we sould maybe all cancel our subscription's to sky sports untill thay stop this I love football thats why I have
got sky sports I am not happy that thay are trackins our subscription's like this


Andrew

Re: Sky Sports 1
 

They're not.

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It's random i think, doesn't happen all the time.