<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Adam McCarthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ug32axm@cs.bham.ac.uk">ug32axm@cs.bham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">It is possible to take Sky directly into a DVB-S card in both NZ and UK,<br>and use a CAM to decrypt the stream as long as you have a legitimate<br>
subscriber card. Unfortunately though this is against Sky's terms and<br>conditions -- you must use the box which the card was activated in.<br></blockquote>
<div>I used this method when I lived in the UK. It's pretty easy. You get a DVB-S card and a CI and CAM. You put your (VALID) sky viewing card in the CAM and you can capture it directly in Myth. It works well, and the quality is a lot higher than capturing the output of a sky box (in either tivo or through a pvr). I did have to reset my backend every week or so for some unknown reason (or I would get a scrambled picture) and every 6 weeks or so you need to leave your Sky card in a sky box for when the keys get updated. Works with premium channels (such as Sky Sports), but I never tried it with the HD service.</div>
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<div>While it is technically may be against Sky's terms and conditions - European law does require satellite providers to allow for alternate reception equipment. Sky has chosen to ignore this. So while the legality is grey - since this hack works only with a valid subscription card (and fully paid up subscription) I think it falls squarely on the correct side as far as I'm concerned. It's exactly what you'd get with a PVR card, only with better quality.</div>
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