Pull your Sky card out of your digibox & you will be left with all the Free To AIr channels that you can receive with this or indeed any other DVB-S card.OneEleven said:If I have a Sky mini-dish and I connect it up to this card would I get the freeview channels or is something else required?
Wow! This is great news. I will try & check it out tomorrow. I have got my old TT-budget S-1300 working with MCE on the FTA channels but I couldn't get it to work with the current S-1500 with CI. If this works it will be fantastic as I can then use my Dragon CAM & Sky card in MCE.Muf said:Techno Trend just released a new Beta version of this emulation software, which supports the CAM. I may get a chance to try it later.
Jim.
No, too busy this weekend. May not get a chance now until the Xmas holidays. Will report back.Whitey1977 said:Nigel
had a chance to play with this yet?
Whitey
I have no DVB-T to compare it with but in theory it should b much better as DVB-S is transmitted at a much higher bit rate (typically double).Embarker said:Does the freeview stuff look better than with a DVB-T card?
Can't be done in my experience anyway. You can have Sky scrambled channels with Technotrend's own application if you use a Dragon (aka T-Rex) CAM. You can have the Free To Air channels within MCE.WheresMyArtisan said:Anyone fancy posting an idiot's guide to getting Sky through MCE with a subscription card?
Depending on the deal that you get from BSkyB the digibox will be free or at least very cheap. You will want a digibox in any case as the card needs to be re-activated in the digibox every few weeks. You will need one card for each DVB-S card.Could I get Sky to do a free/cheap install and give me a card without buying a Sky box? Obviously I'll have to pay for the subscription. Do I need one card per DVB-S card, or will one card cover two tuners?
The ITV channels are now Free To Air. The only channels that you need a Free To View card for are C4, Five & Sky 3. To use an FTV card you will need the CI module & a Dragon (aka T-Rex) CAM (Conditional Access Module). You cannot decrypt the FTV channels within MCE but it works fine with the Technotrend software.Norman said:Am I correct in thinking that I can use one of the spare LNB feeds on my Sky+ dish to get all the free-to-view TV channels on the Sky digital platform in MCE? If this is so, how does it decode the Free-to-view channels that still use Skys encryption (ITV, C4 etc)? Do you need the separate CI module and a Free-to-view card?
Also, how does the quaility of this compare to a DVB-T solution (so far I've been deeply unimpressed with DVB-T picture quallity compared to Sky Digital)
nigelbb said:you will need the CI module & a Dragon (aka T-Rex) CAM (Conditional Access Module).
I got mine from www.dvbshop.tv but you may want to order from a UK supplier like http://www.satstore.co.uk/cams.htmNorman said:I see that I can buy the CI module with the card, but where can I get a Dragon CAM from?