Moving From Sky SD (Old Boxes)? You can still use your Remote Control

Great news if you are switching your free-to-air sky box for a newer HD type, due to the BBC going HD only, and ITV following suit this month some people maybe left with older remote controls, BUT fear not older white remotes can be used with the newer HD boxes like DRX595, you just need to switch the mode.

Below is the way we switch the mode to allow it to be used on a High Def box, this will work for most remotes that are official SKY branded (check under the battery cover to be sure, you will see a label with something like "SKY Rev.9 or .8")

SKY REMOTE MODE CHANGE

For most remotes Version 4 and later (white label inside battery cover)
1 Press "TV"
2 Press and hold "Select" and "Yellow" together until red led in remote end flashes twice (On HD remotes "Select" and "i" together) - if it doesn't flash twice then remote cannot be reprogrammed (clone or too old)
3 Press "0" to operate standard box, "1" for Sky+ and on HD remotes "2" for HD - remotes in Sky+ mode will normally control HD boxes as well
4 Press "Select" - red led should flash twice
5 Press "Sky" and away you go

Any remote in Sky+ mode will also operate HD boxes BUT this can be stopped in some remote and box combinations in the following way (it certainly works on Amstrad DRX890 boxes but NOT Thomson HD boxes)
1 Press "TV"
2 Press and hold "Select" and "Blue" together until red led in remote end flashes twice - if it doesn't flash twice then remote cannot be reprogrammed (clone or too old)
3 Press "1"- There are 4 different modes here 0, 1, 2, 3
4 Press "Select" - red led should flash twice
5 Press "Sky" and away you go

In above to return remote to operating both in step 3 press "0"