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Old 20-09-2012, 01:09   #46
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Heck, the VM one is even easier to defeat, just record the program and watch it from your recordings (can even fast forward so its live) and the numbers never appear.
That's probably why I've never seen what the torrent of complaints have been about!
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Sky have been doing it for years and it was pretty easily defeated by people streaming Sky Sports. How? Delay the broadcast by 60 seconds and when you see the numbers appear blank out that section of the stream.

Heck, the VM one is even easier to defeat, just record the program and watch it from your recordings (can even fast forward so its live) and the numbers never appear.

But most of the streams come from Europe/Ireland and even further afield. Fox Soccer is an amusing watch.
Sky have been doing exactly what for years?
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Old 22-09-2012, 11:53   #48
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Sky have been doing exactly what for years?
Putting numbers on the screen during Sports broadcasts
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Old 22-09-2012, 13:46   #49
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

glad was no numbers on todays game
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Old 22-09-2012, 17:28   #50
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Putting numbers on the screen during Sports broadcasts
Not on my Sky+ HD box's they havnt Ben.
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Old 22-09-2012, 18:03   #51
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Not on my Sky+ HD box's they havnt Ben.
That's because they don't do it often, nor by the looks of it will they do it at the same time as when it's done on Virgin.
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Putting numbers on the screen during Sports broadcasts
Been with sky for over 13 years before I foolishly moved over to VM and never once have I seen that number put in the corner of the screen
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Old 22-09-2012, 22:51   #53
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

VM are probably just doing to pee you off....
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Been with sky for over 13 years before I foolishly moved over to VM and never once have I seen that number put in the corner of the screen
Sky tend to make them unobtrusive (unlike virgin), so you may have never even noticed it.

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Pict...reen/td-p/5559
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

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Sky tend to make them unobtrusive (unlike virgin), so you may have never even noticed it.

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Pict...reen/td-p/5559
i have never seen that in my life.. i have had sky most of my life..
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

Why has my picture on sky sports 2 suddenly shrunk and got black lines at the side?
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Old 23-09-2012, 09:54   #57
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Why has my picture on sky sports 2 suddenly shrunk and got black lines at the side?
Dont have that here my Sky sports 2 is still as it always is.
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Re: Sky Sports 2HD

I have the display set to 1080. Not wide.

But this has not happenned before. The cricket is on, even the adverts are in small screen.
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I have the display set to 1080. Not wide.

But this has not happenned before. The cricket is on, even the adverts are in small screen.
that be why they set it to 1080 wide
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that be why they set it to 1080 wide
Never happenned before. Hate wide as the resolution seems worse.
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