Quote: Originally posted by juegreg on 09/3/2007
as sky no longer lock cards to receivers. So now our card can go with us in any receiver.
Erm, sorry to contradict, but that's just plain wrong!!! 
Every Sky viewing card has a unique chip and a 9 digit card number. Unless you only want free to air channels, and a "wrong card for set top box" message on any premium channels (including any for which you pay a subscription) you will need to pair your card to the box in which it's being used.
The engineer does this on installation by getting the box to do a callback to Sky and, barring any problems, card and box will remain paired until one or other is changed. Sky Customer Services will start asking questions if you're calling to pair your card to another box every other weekend and then again every time you get home, especially if you have multiroom, the T's & C's of which say all boxes must remain connected to the same active phone line at all times (and that assumes with the correct viewing card in those boxes). This is how Sky verifies that it's just one household benefitting from the £10 per month multiroom subscription and the card is not being used to broadcast the football to 200 people in the local pub! 
Obviously, if you take your own Sky Box or Sky+, keeping the card with it, you won't have this problem. 
Only other thing to remember is that the the general T's & C's of Sky viewing make it clear that you agree to avail yourself of the service within the UK only.
Topic: satellite systems
