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Thread ID: 69224	2006-05-26 03:46:00	Is Sky TV accessible over a third party decoder?	jermsie (6820)	PC World Chat

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457777	2006-05-26 03:46:00	I don't have sky tv at the moment, but the house has a sky dish. My dad got a guy to tune the dish to some other optus B satellite for some foreign channels... Got me thinking.. My friend's uncle is able to watch sky (not digital) on his dish and satellite decoder. Is there anyway for me to do that, watch the scrambled tv? We've got a third party decoder. I'm very interested to know.	jermsie (6820)
457778	2006-05-26 04:03:00	My friend's uncle is able to watch sky (not digital) on his dish and satellite decoder. Is there anyway for me to do that, watch the scrambled tv? We've got a third party decoder. I'm very interested to know. That's confusing. Your "friends uncle" must be watching "digital" as that's all that comes out of a sattelite. The "decoder" is the set-box that converts it to a TV signal (analog). Not to be confused witha "decoder" that allows accwess to Pay TV. The difference with Pay TV is that the subscription channels are scrambled, so you will not be able to "decode" those with a third party set-top box, and if there was a way its actually against forum rules to discuss it (See rule 4)...	godfather (25)
457779	2006-05-26 04:15:00	to decode sky with a 3rdparty receiver you will need to able to load firmware which would be a big hassle and you would of course still need to pay sky to get a card to unlock it. the only reson you might want to do that is if you don't like sky's poor performaning sat decoders and you have your own bettr quailty one. there is afaik a few analogue sat channels still around (russin/asian and need a big dish for them). that setup won;t be able to pickup sky's digital signal. last i heard it was possible to crack sky's digital feed however it took a while for the pc to do it so you had glitches every time the codes rolled through (ie interuptions to the picture). not exactly worth it iho.	tweak'e (69)
457780	2006-05-26 06:47:00	Interesting. Oh well.	jermsie (6820)
457781	2006-05-26 07:58:00	I think that you can get a decoder from the pirate contries (China etc.) that will decode just about every satalite pay TV feed under the sun.	Greven (91)
457782	2006-05-27 04:53:00	I think your question is similar to mine raised just a few days ago... See www.pressf1.co.nz See pressf1.pcworld.co.nz I'm planning to buy some satelite receiver set-top box, maybe from asia next month, I think it'll allow me to watch the free-to-air satellite channels then (and more when Optus D1 satellite is launched)...	jesseycy (1046)
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