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<blockquote data-quote="davemurgtroyd" data-source="post: 1022706" data-attributes="member: 319227"><p>You may own the hardware but you do not own the software in the box which is incomplete for Sky+ features without an active viewing card. So your subscription is your license to use that software - a model also used by Tivo and Microsoft amongst others.</p><p></p><p>This is partly due to the way Sky+ boxes were imported into the EU as receivers at a lower duty rate than PVRs. Sky successfully argued in court against HMRC taht as an active subscription is required for PVR use thay are only receivers. Other manufacturers (including Humax) avoided this duty by importing without HDDs fitted and either fitting them in the EU OR selling themas PVR ready for user to fit own HDD.</p><p></p><p>Allowing subscription free Sky+ facilities would now cost Sky many millions of £s in back duty for the previously supplied boxes (probabaly well over 20 million boxes now). So it almost certainly will never happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davemurgtroyd, post: 1022706, member: 319227"] You may own the hardware but you do not own the software in the box which is incomplete for Sky+ features without an active viewing card. So your subscription is your license to use that software - a model also used by Tivo and Microsoft amongst others. This is partly due to the way Sky+ boxes were imported into the EU as receivers at a lower duty rate than PVRs. Sky successfully argued in court against HMRC taht as an active subscription is required for PVR use thay are only receivers. Other manufacturers (including Humax) avoided this duty by importing without HDDs fitted and either fitting them in the EU OR selling themas PVR ready for user to fit own HDD. Allowing subscription free Sky+ facilities would now cost Sky many millions of £s in back duty for the previously supplied boxes (probabaly well over 20 million boxes now). So it almost certainly will never happen. [/QUOTE]
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