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Unable to access Sky Player

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 02:03 — primehifi

Just signed up for the proxy service for the UK.
I can access iPlayer, Five and ITV just fine, Channel4 and most importantly, Sky.com Player won't work.
Sky won't even let me sign up.
Help?

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Tue, 09/15/2009 - 11:39 — proxyservice

Did you try our Video

Did you try our Video Utility? http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/proxyservice/video-and-audio.html

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:27 — primehifi

yes

yes. I'm on a mac, and I've tried on PC's as well.
I'm fairly tech savvy and I've used proxy's before. Like I said, iplayer, five, itv all work fine but sky player tells me I'm foreign.
Could they be blocking the ip?

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 14:47 — primehifi

as well.

www.tvcatchup.com doesn't work either "Acess Denied (Non UK)"

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:26 — proxyservice

I can hardly believe they

I can hardly believe they block our IPs. I guess they use special proxy detection technique which is hard to break. I am afraid we can not help you much here.

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 15:40 — primehifi

Ok

Thanks for the quick replies!

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 18:30 — ericjung

Please make sure FoxyProxy

Please make sure FoxyProxy is set to "Use Proxy XXXXX for All URLs" and also use the FoxyProxy Video Utility. I'm not saying that will fix the problem, but if you haven't already tried that, it's worth trying.

Eric

Mon, 06/06/2011 - 22:42 — nathanhaigh

Pattern for Sky Player

I'd post this to the "share patterns" forum but I don't seem to have access to post anything there! :(

You can try this pattern to allow you to sign in and use sky player:
https://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/login.do*

Only a small number of files are required to go through the proxy for this, so you shouldn't have many issues with lag!