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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Has anyone tried doing this? It's news to me!
Maybe this works differently on Virgin Media.
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It does work differently.
Sky boxes record the encrypted stream directly off the satellite, then descramble it when you play the recording back. So you don't need the channel entitlement to record, but you do to play back.
On VM boxes, the stream is descrambled at the time of recording. So you do need entitlement to record, but not, in general, to play back. The exception is the Sky-owned channels, where the channel entitlement is also checked on playback. This is a contractual requirement from Sky.