Anyone got the new SKY cards yet?

[compufunk]

I don't understand that as there is only 1 encrypted carrier. Are you saying that one carrier can be decoded by multiple methods?

There are plenty of packages/channels that are simultaneously encrypted in multiple encryption types.

Premier Germany is encrypted in Betacrypt, Nagra and NDS. They were even using multiple versions of Nagra at one point.

 

[Anonymous-A]

I've had the white Sky card for my Irish subscription for a few weeks. Up until the white card arrived I used to put the blue card back into its paired Sky box every three weeks overnight to update the card.

The white card will clear all paid for channels in my TM-6800 Super in the Multicrypt slot but the card will not update, as I found out.

I went away for a week and placed the white card into its Sky receiver while I was away. When I got back the Sky box would not clear any paid for channels - all paid for channels were showing the 08 - Programme is not available message.

I had to phone Sky and get the card re-activated. It seems that unlike the blue cards the white card keep alive signal is only sent once and if it isn't received the card will go to sleep until reactivated by a Sky customer service agent.

So when is the keep alive signal sent out? I have no idea. But this does mean the card will only now go into the Technomate when I want to record a programme rather than for everyday use.

 

[kitschcamp]

That's insane! They'll have phone queues like they wouldn't believe.

 

[rolfw]

I'm sure that it isn't only sent once, but they are obviously limiting the keep alive broadcasts to make card sharing more difficult.

The old expression "There's method in their madness" springs to mind.