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Somebody told me other day that the reason the sky cards are being changed over for new ones is because some people are taking their sky boxes out of the UK.

Are these new cards going to stop caravanners/motorhomes etc from taking their satellite on holiday, if so how would the card or box know where it is picking up the signal from?

If so, would a freesat card work in Western Europe in a Sky box?

I should mention it was someone at Sky that told me..... has anyone actually tried it since the new card?? 

Quote: If so, would a freesat card work in Western Europe in a Sky box?

Quote: Originally posted by Dave11 on 20/6/2009

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I should mention it was someone at Sky that told me.....

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Does anyone know if Freesat cards work in France in a sky box with a large maxview dish, also would I still need to point at Astra 2?

Thanks

We have the new Sky cards and one of the old black boxes in another room. The black box has stopped working due to the changeover so i just take out the card from the new style white box slot into black box and i can then change over the channels - a bit of a pain but it works

Andy

may help

http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Quote: Originally posted by mjw1999 on 20/6/2009

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I'm a satellite enthusiast so may be able to help.
Sky Tv use an encryption company called NDS, who provide a method of scrambling subscription channel's, there encryption is very good and has never been hacked, so there is no such thing as a copied sky card that works.
NDS have a contract with Sky to renew the method of encryption every five years, this requires a new card and is the only reason for the change. All blue cards will soon be switched off and only the new white cards will work.

you can watch sky without a card, but will not discuss it on the forum.
Thanks

Mike

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