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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1078783" data-attributes="member: 330868">The Greek services on 3ºE and 39ºE are encrypted with an encryption called BISS - a bit of online searching and a compatible receiver make them watchable (receivers can be got for as cheap as around £40). They are the feeds for the digital terrestrial network in Greece (two commercial multiplexes from Digea on 3ºE and the two public ERT multiplexes on 39ºE). I do get the impression that they're encrypted in this pretty weak way so as to comply with content rights issues for the Greek channels while still allowing/turning a blind eye to people being able to get them fairly easily still via satellite (almost like a cheap Freesat kind of solution). That's just my impression though and it's certainly not something that can be discussed here in any more detail other than saying to search online!With Cosmote you'd get all those channels on the same satellite (9ºE), along with the other channels that come as part of the Family package, with the added bonus that those major commercial Digea services (Ant.1, Alpha, Skai etc.) are all in HD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1078783, member: 330868"] The Greek services on 3ºE and 39ºE are encrypted with an encryption called BISS - a bit of online searching and a compatible receiver make them watchable (receivers can be got for as cheap as around £40). They are the feeds for the digital terrestrial network in Greece (two commercial multiplexes from Digea on 3ºE and the two public ERT multiplexes on 39ºE). I do get the impression that they're encrypted in this pretty weak way so as to comply with content rights issues for the Greek channels while still allowing/turning a blind eye to people being able to get them fairly easily still via satellite (almost like a cheap Freesat kind of solution). That's just my impression though and it's certainly not something that can be discussed here in any more detail other than saying to search online! With Cosmote you'd get all those channels on the same satellite (9ºE), along with the other channels that come as part of the Family package, with the added bonus that those major commercial Digea services (Ant.1, Alpha, Skai etc.) are all in HD. [/QUOTE]

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