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Detailed comparison Freeview/Sky
Thursday 8 May 2014 9:34PM

Sharealam: Only on the local multiplex, however.

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Michael: if you bypass the CPU in the smartcard then you're not going to get acting other than unencrypted data!

Why would Ofcom stop something that is totally legal?

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Detailed comparison Freeview/Sky
Friday 9 May 2014 8:13AM

MikeP: Not meaning to quibble ... but the industry people use LCN ("Logical Channel Number").

The Frequency is currently C27 (522.0MHz), C29 (538.0MHz) and C57 (762.0MHz) - as the local multiplexes use the "interleaved frequencies" in the national plan.




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Michael: The system used ("NDS") is now owned by Cisco. NDS Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has details.

To answer your question there are artciles like Pay-TV smartcard hacking - how easy is it?

To understand how the cards are well interated into the set-top box (and not an "add on") this diagram shows



See NCN8024 datasheet | Pinouts | Circuits | Schematic for Ncn8024 Smart Card Interface Ic for details.

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All free TV channels in the UK
Saturday 10 May 2014 8:58PM

Janet Hursey: The bonanzabonanza channel has been replaced on those few transmitters that carried it with Chart Show TV (number 67).

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sue purves: a sky card won't make the slightest bit of difference.

If you have reset your sky box already then the most likely answer is to get a larger satellite dish.

From what I recall - I used to live in Cascaise - three are plenty of local installer companies who can help.

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MikeB: .... or you can do it the old-fashioned way and use a hardware firewall.

The good ones aren't cheap, but they are effective.

Cisco ASA 5505 Security Appliance - Firewall Edition.. | Ebuyer.com is an example.

But £263 is cheaper than the Cisco ASA 5515-X Firewall Edition Security appliance | Ebuyer.com at £2181!

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