<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:andy@tensixtyone.com">andy@tensixtyone.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 7/29/07, Matt Bruce <<a href="mailto:lists@jumile.me.uk">lists@jumile.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> As I own the Sky gear I have and still have the Sky satellite card, my
<br>> understanding is that Ch4&5 are fine with that card (I'll essentially<br>> be a "Freesat from Sky" user as per <a href="http://www.freesatfromsky.com/">http://www.freesatfromsky.com/</a><br>> with ~200 video channels and ~95 radio channels). So if I build a PVR
<br>> that can take the card (a CI slot?), will that not allow Ch4&5<br>> decryption?<br><br>Sky's encryption system is "in-house" to NewsCorp, so no CAMs are<br>available for NDS (as far as I know). You'll have to use a Sky box
<br>with a PVR-150 or its ilk to get full channel access.</blockquote>
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<div>A Dragon or T-Rex CAM will work with a valid Sky card to decrypt whatever channels are allowed on your Sky card (anything from just the freeview to the premium channels like Sky Sports if you've subscribed). You need to put the card overnight in a Sky digibox every 2 months or so to get the new keys.
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<div>You can't do two channels simultaneously though - so I'd have one DVB-S card connected with the CI to the CAM for the encrypted channels, and a second that's connected to your other LNB that can pick up the ones that don't need decoding at all (BBC, ITV, Film4, Sky News, CNN, etc).
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