Re: [Hampshire] [Way OT] FreeSat

2008/5/22 Rob Malpass <lug@???>:
>
> Thanks Hugo. So the big question is - can I just plug the spare connection
> from my Sky dish into a box (say Humax) I buy myself? According to
> freesatfromsky - I need this £20 card or the only things I'll get are BBC1
> regions. I'm wondering whether that's true.
>
> Interestingly enough - freesat themselves (not freesatfromsky) told me that
> before connecting my own box to a Sky dish that I'd need to check with Sky
> that doing so didn't affect my warranty - but
> a) my Sky box is now beyond warranty
> b) I don't think the dish ever had a warranty - and I'm pretty sure the dish
> is mine, not theirs.
> c) I'm not sure how Sky would / could ever know I'd hooked something up to
> an already existing connection to the dish ghe only way I "communicate" with
> Sky is the monthly callback thing that handles the purchase of ppv events.
>
> All very odd - and as you say - seemingly devised specifically to confuse.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>

One easy way to tell what you will get from FreeSky, is to just remove
the smart card from a normal sky box, and reboot the box and see which
channels appear.
You will not even get ITV or Channel4 because they are encrypted. Only
BBC and lots of sales channels are left. You therefore need a special
sky card to decrypt the ITV and Channel4 which involves a one off
payment cost of about £20.
Until one can get a Software CAM that is compatible with Sky allowing
one to view ITV and Channel4 on a linux computer, I prefer not to
touch SKY at all.