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July 10th - the day of reckoning
"Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk wrote in message ... In article , Dom Robinson wrote: So, has anyone with S1 or S2 cards lost the channels today? Nobody is expecting to - for a couple more weeks at least. Woke up this morning with this message on my Sky Box. The BBC is still encrypted. http://logofreetv.org/render.asp?mod...ews_read&i=126 |
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:11:14 +0000 (UTC), "NO LOGO"
wrote: "Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk wrote in message ... In article , Dom Robinson wrote: So, has anyone with S1 or S2 cards lost the channels today? Nobody is expecting to - for a couple more weeks at least. Woke up this morning with this message on my Sky Box. The BBC is still encrypted. http://logofreetv.org/render.asp?mod...ews_read&i=126 I have had no such messages with my V1 FTV card (not an expired Sky card). -- Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur |
I agree, but I have Tivo which is my main remote control and has a much
better EPG than SKY or Freeview put together. Nigel Barker wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:38:09 +0100, phil Hoggins wrote: After suffering those on screen messages for the past few days, I ditched my old sky box and v1 card (only used for FTV) and got a freeview box, much faster, better services and much smaller box, which I However there is a crappy EPG (just Now & Next) & the various remotes that I have seen are all really naff compared to the Digibox one. -- Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur |
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says... "Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk wrote in message ... In article , Dom Robinson wrote: So, has anyone with S1 or S2 cards lost the channels today? Nobody is expecting to - for a couple more weeks at least. Woke up this morning with this message on my Sky Box. The BBC is still encrypted. http://logofreetv.org/render.asp?mod...ews_read&i=126 Anyone with a v2 card getting the same messages? -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 933 DVDs, 255 games, 33 videos, 63 cinema films, 69 CDs, laserdiscs & news /* wild at heart, super monkey ball 2, 24, dan's movie digest, daredevil comp TV Hates U: BBC2 & UK Gold: http://dvdfever.co.uk/pressrel/tvhatesu.shtml Big Brother 4 - http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/bigbro4.shtml |
Mark Carver wrote:
My *guess* is that V2 FTV cards will continue to decode ITV/4/5 until they are replaced by V3 cards. This is also what the Beeb currently think. Me2. -- Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these. The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/4f9c How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73 Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/ BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.cjb.net/ ---- Only the truth as I see it. No monies return'd. ;-) |
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:46:18 +0000, rnet[dot]co[dot]uk
(Simon Gardner) wrote: SKY - "A digital vision for everyone accept 560,000 FTV homes" I spoke to Matt Wells at the Grauniad about this today and have some hope a story will appear shortly. So that presumably would be this one: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...995806,00.html "Sky is preparing to withdraw the three main commercial TV channels from up to a million homes in a dispute that threatens the government's digital broadcasting plans." Clearly it's all Sky's fault, once again. That article then goes on to imply that CNN and Turner Classic Movies were also decoded by the FTV smartcard. |
Nigel Barker said:
Surely it is partially Sky's fault. They _are_ preparing to switch off FTV & expired Sky cards that currently work. It seems like spite on their part for having lost money from the BBC although as a well run business surely they wouldn't be so petty. Why do they have to switch off the cards? They are changing the encryption key in line with a card replacement programme that has been ongoing for many months and planned for a long time before that. The fact that the changeover to the new cards is happening at the same time as the BBC's move to FTA is just coincidence.... isn't it? -- Gareth Kitchener Bedfordshire, England http://www.garethkitchener.org.uk |
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Nigel Barker wrote: Surely it is partially Sky's fault. They _are_ preparing to switch off FTV & expired Sky cards that currently work. It seems like spite on their part for having lost money from the BBC although as a well run business surely they wouldn't be so petty. Why do they have to switch off the cards? They're not "switching off the cards" - they're stopping using the encryption method that V1 cards can decode. Dave -- Email: MSN Messenger: |
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:27:48 GMT, (Ant) wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:46:18 +0000, rnet[dot]co[dot]uk (Simon Gardner) wrote: SKY - "A digital vision for everyone accept 560,000 FTV homes" I spoke to Matt Wells at the Grauniad about this today and have some hope a story will appear shortly. So that presumably would be this one: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...995806,00.html "Sky is preparing to withdraw the three main commercial TV channels from up to a million homes in a dispute that threatens the government's digital broadcasting plans." Clearly it's all Sky's fault, once again. That article then goes on to imply that CNN and Turner Classic Movies were also decoded by the FTV smartcard. Surely it is partially Sky's fault. They _are_ preparing to switch off FTV & expired Sky cards that currently work. It seems like spite on their part for having lost money from the BBC although as a well run business surely they wouldn't be so petty. Why do they have to switch off the cards? -- Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur |
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