Sky on two sat.receivers with one card
Sep 13th 2011, 7:16 pm
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Sky on two sat.receivers with one card
I'm searching for a second sat.receiver which can the same sky sat card(white).
Here are the facts:
I have two houses with sat.dish installed in Spain. One with dual feed.
One SKY HD tuner and Sky card (white).
Today I'm bringing the Sky HD tuner and card with me when I move from house to house. I would like to just take the Sky card with me but that seems not to be possible because the card is tied to receiver.
Therefore anyone knows a sat. receiver which isn't tied to the card, and can receive HD, can record and has dual feed signal (dual tuner)? Almost same functionality as SKY's HD box.
Thanks
Here are the facts:
I have two houses with sat.dish installed in Spain. One with dual feed.
One SKY HD tuner and Sky card (white).
Today I'm bringing the Sky HD tuner and card with me when I move from house to house. I would like to just take the Sky card with me but that seems not to be possible because the card is tied to receiver.
Therefore anyone knows a sat. receiver which isn't tied to the card, and can receive HD, can record and has dual feed signal (dual tuner)? Almost same functionality as SKY's HD box.
Thanks
Sep 13th 2011, 8:30 pm
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Re: Sky on two sat.receivers with one card
A Sky card must be paired with a sky box for the Sports channels, Movie channels, and recording and playback of encrypted channels.
There are one or two recievers that do what you want to do, but not seen many dual feed boxes that read sky cards, and many are USB recording
the ferguson arriva 100e and 200 (about 150euros) and some golden interstars receivers have HD and USB recording and read sky cards.
but they have a few limitiations:
they will not have the 7 day programme guide that sky uses, or the series link system.
You will more than likely be stuck with just now and next information.
And in a number of boxes like this you have to put the card back in a Sky box every few weeks so its "entitlements" are updated and the card continues to work.
There are other receivers, but these are very more "hobbiest" receivers, and require a bit of code chaning to the receivers firmware to read cards.
Prehaps you go to a more "satellite based" forum (satellites.co.uk) and ask the question there, as there are many more people there with many different receivers and can give a much more wider choice of receivers....
There are one or two recievers that do what you want to do, but not seen many dual feed boxes that read sky cards, and many are USB recording
the ferguson arriva 100e and 200 (about 150euros) and some golden interstars receivers have HD and USB recording and read sky cards.
but they have a few limitiations:
they will not have the 7 day programme guide that sky uses, or the series link system.
You will more than likely be stuck with just now and next information.
And in a number of boxes like this you have to put the card back in a Sky box every few weeks so its "entitlements" are updated and the card continues to work.
There are other receivers, but these are very more "hobbiest" receivers, and require a bit of code chaning to the receivers firmware to read cards.
Prehaps you go to a more "satellite based" forum (satellites.co.uk) and ask the question there, as there are many more people there with many different receivers and can give a much more wider choice of receivers....
Sep 13th 2011, 11:07 pm
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Re: Sky on two sat.receivers with one card
I'm searching for a second sat.receiver which can the same sky sat card(white).
Here are the facts:
I have two houses with sat.dish installed in Spain. One with dual feed.
One SKY HD tuner and Sky card (white).
Today I'm bringing the Sky HD tuner and card with me when I move from house to house. I would like to just take the Sky card with me but that seems not to be possible because the card is tied to receiver.
Therefore anyone knows a sat. receiver which isn't tied to the card, and can receive HD, can record and has dual feed signal (dual tuner)? Almost same functionality as SKY's HD box.
Thanks
Here are the facts:
I have two houses with sat.dish installed in Spain. One with dual feed.
One SKY HD tuner and Sky card (white).
Today I'm bringing the Sky HD tuner and card with me when I move from house to house. I would like to just take the Sky card with me but that seems not to be possible because the card is tied to receiver.
Therefore anyone knows a sat. receiver which isn't tied to the card, and can receive HD, can record and has dual feed signal (dual tuner)? Almost same functionality as SKY's HD box.
Thanks
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Sep 14th 2011, 7:19 am
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Re: Sky on two sat.receivers with one card
A Sky card must be paired with a sky box for the Sports channels, Movie channels, and recording and playback of encrypted channels.
There are one or two recievers that do what you want to do, but not seen many dual feed boxes that read sky cards, and many are USB recording
the ferguson arriva 100e and 200 (about 150euros) and some golden interstars receivers have HD and USB recording and read sky cards.
but they have a few limitiations:
they will not have the 7 day programme guide that sky uses, or the series link system.
You will more than likely be stuck with just now and next information.
And in a number of boxes like this you have to put the card back in a Sky box every few weeks so its "entitlements" are updated and the card continues to work.
There are other receivers, but these are very more "hobbiest" receivers, and require a bit of code chaning to the receivers firmware to read cards.
Prehaps you go to a more "satellite based" forum (satellites.co.uk) and ask the question there, as there are many more people there with many different receivers and can give a much more wider choice of receivers....
There are one or two recievers that do what you want to do, but not seen many dual feed boxes that read sky cards, and many are USB recording
the ferguson arriva 100e and 200 (about 150euros) and some golden interstars receivers have HD and USB recording and read sky cards.
but they have a few limitiations:
they will not have the 7 day programme guide that sky uses, or the series link system.
You will more than likely be stuck with just now and next information.
And in a number of boxes like this you have to put the card back in a Sky box every few weeks so its "entitlements" are updated and the card continues to work.
There are other receivers, but these are very more "hobbiest" receivers, and require a bit of code chaning to the receivers firmware to read cards.
Prehaps you go to a more "satellite based" forum (satellites.co.uk) and ask the question there, as there are many more people there with many different receivers and can give a much more wider choice of receivers....
Thanks
