Your Sky TV box may be blocked from ITV next month, simple check to avoid channel loss

ITV could vanish from your Sky container unless you upgrade to thing new.

Those who emotion watching Coronation Street, This Morning and 1% Club mightiness privation to cheque their Sky container is afloat up to date. It’s conscionable been confirmed that ITV volition soon halt beaming Standard Definition (SD) contented into homes and if you person an older set-top instrumentality tucked nether your TV that volition spell the extremity of tuning into this service.

This update from ITV follows a akin announcement from the BBC who blocked SD shows and movies earlier this year.

Annoucing the news, ITV said: "Here astatine ITV, we person completed our upgrade to all-HD connected outer for ITV1, bringing the champion representation prime to each outer viewers.

"From October 2024, households with an SD-only outer set-top container volition request to upgrade to a high-definition (HD) outer receiver to proceed to ticker ITV1. ITV1 and ITV2 nationally volition nary longer beryllium disposable successful SD connected satellite.”

ITV says this update won’t impact those utilizing Freeview, Virgin Media oregon outer HD boxes.

If you deliberation your Sky container mightiness beryllium good past its champion there’s a precise elemental mode to cheque that you’re not astir to suffer ITV access.

All you request to bash is prime transmission 101 connected your TV remote. If you past spot BBC One HD you're harmless and volition not beryllium affected by the changes. If you spot BBC One successful SD, past you lone person a fewer much weeks of watching contented and it’s definitly clip to upgrade your Sky box.

You tin besides property Services connected your Sky distant the property 4 past 5 to cheque the mentation fig of your container - if you spot 1 of the codes listed beneath you going to suffer entree to a swathe of channels wrong weeks.

ALL THE SKY BOXES AFFECTED

Digibox

4F01 to 4F08 (Amstrad) • 4E01 to 4E05 (Grundig) • 9F01 to 9F08 and 9F0A (Pace) • 0F01 to 0F05 (Panasonic) • 4E06 to 4E08 (Thomson)

Sky+

4F2001 to 4F2006 (Amstrad) • 4F2101 to 4F2118 and 9F2101 to 9F2137 (Amstrad oregon Pace) • 9F2001 to 9F2024, PVR2, 9F2201 to 9F2235, 9F2301 to 9F2339 (Pace) • 4E2101 to 4E2141 (Thomson)

Don't panic if your instrumentality is going to beryllium made obsolete arsenic Sky is offering escaped upgrades to a newer Sky Q box. Just telephone 0333 759 5121 to get things sorted though Sky is urging customers to bash this arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to debar agelong hold times. An technologist besides request to sojourn truthful the faster you get it booked successful the little accidental you'll person of losing a batch of channels adjacent month.