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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Razza</b> <<a href="mailto:ray@brambletree.net">ray@brambletree.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Stroller wrote:<br>08 April 2007 19:00<br>>For subscription Sky services? I've never encountered anyone who is
<br>using it under Linux - I'm sure compatibility has never been<br>>confirmed on this list.<br>>Stroller.<br><br>Cheers, I've looked around on various fora and have seen no success<br>stories under Linux, although plenty under windows :o(
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<div>Here's one - I use a DVB-S card with my (valid) Sky card on my MythTV set up.</div>
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<div>I have the Technotrend TT-budget S-1500 DVB-S card with add-on CI daughter card and a T-Rex 4.1 CAM. I bought the card and CI daughter from Germany - <a href="http://www.dvbshop.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
http://www.dvbshop.net/</a> and the T-Rex from ebay. I use the SVN builds of Myth (for some reason the 0.20 release didn't work with my CAM) and can happily decrypt all the channels I pay for on Sky (but I don't have any of the premium channels - but C4, E4, Discovery, MTV,etc all work). It is possible to enter your Sky digibox serial number to the CAM (I can do it with the CAS3+ programmer I bought) which then should enable it to work with the premium channels (Sports and Movies) - but I haven't done that yet.
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<div>It was plug and play for me. I use a current kernel (2.6.20 I think but it worked on.19 as well) on FC6 and everything worked out of the box. I have to return my Sky card to the digibox once a month/6-weeks or so to 'refresh' the keys on the Sky card.
</div><br>As far as I'm aware it's completely legal as long as you have a valid Sky card, and the quality I get is very good (better I imagine than captured digibox output since it stays in the digital domain until I play it on my TV).
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<div>Recording BBC-HD works fine, but I usually have to transcode it to play decently on any of my frontends. I stick with the Radiotimes feed for my EPG since I can only get now and next via DVB. It can't interpret the Sky EPG feed.
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