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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smoggy07" data-source="post: 837294" data-attributes="member: 298987"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Digital" target="_blank">Canal Digita</a>l cable cards and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Digital" target="_blank">Canal Digital</a> satellite cards "should not" be interchangeable, even if they share the same flavour encryption system i.e. Conax, it should work differently (think if Nagra3 was cracked wide open in the US on satellite, that would not mean we could bring their cards to the UK for our Nagra3 cable system)The only thing I can think of is they both use the Conax encryption and by fluke or some other strange reason, the keys from Feb to March where the same on both cards.With digital cable in the UK, the cable box talks to the headend via something called the return path, this is like the UK Sky Digital boxes call home via landline featureThe cable box, receives a signal from the headend and sends a valid reply via the return path, it`s used for PPV, interactive features and also to make sure all the receivers on one subscription are all in the same property (something which they can`t do all that well/something that is easy to fool within a street or two lol)It may well be that the card was expecting the next set of keys via a 2 way communication between the box and the headend or it may be that the headend has tried to talk to the box on a number of occasions and the box has not replied so the headend has blocked the box/card (not quite sure how that would work unless their cable playout and satellite playout center(s) are in the same building/room and is split between one feed going to the cable trunk and one feed going to the satellite uplink from the same playout source?)What she would need to do is send the card back home to a friend who lives in a cabled area (with a live cable feed and receiver), leave it on stream for a few hours and see if it comes back to life or if they pair their cable cards to the cable boxes she would need to send the card and box back, leave them on stream for a few hours and see what happensTBH tho if their cable system dishes out the keys after talking to/interrogating the box, the card will only go off again at the next key roll, if it works on satellite at all when she gets it back (it may well have just been some strange fluke that both sat and cable used the same keys at the same time)EDITIs the cable box/card local to you/her or is it from Norway? and is she living in a cabled area now, or back home?</blockquote>

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