New HD channels on Tivu card

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Is this switch to HD a danger of losing the FTA rai 123,storia,scuola on Hotbird?
Or just modernisation of home service for Italy?
Both, the terrestrial transmission is changing over the next year and the Satellite broadcasts are also changing. A bit like the change here from analogue to digital but going that little bit further. At least technically it's a one off payment for the card/cam and it's FTA after.
 

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how much do they cost?
and you still need an "italian address" right?
 

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You can get pre-activated cards quite easily, no Italian details required. On eBay UK they're about £100 at the moment,
 

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And you don't need to 'have' an italian address, you just need to 'fill in' an italian address, a codice fiscale, and an emailaddress.
At least that is how it was a few years ago, if I'm informed correctly.

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for the codice fiscale you must need the help of a cittadino italiano at least...
 

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Thank you forthe nice answers... for me it s in case nothing FTA subsists on hotbird...
it s mainly to keep up with Itanian language ,&I don t need HD for that.
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for the codice fiscale you must need the help of a cittadino italiano at least...
With a pre-activated card someone has already done this for you.

Or for Rai channels a multistream receiver and a dish pointing to 5°W works very nicely, though with no guarantee how long it will last.
 

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for the codice fiscale you must need the help of a cittadino italiano at least...

Not really. You can design your own codice. At least, that was the situation a few years ago.
When that hasn't changed, it is just as I wrote.
So you can activate your card yourself, you don't need it preactivated.

What makes that you have a different opinion? Do you have information that I don't?

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You can get pre-activated cards quite easily, no Italian details required. On eBay UK they're about £100 at the moment,
£80 new 4k/UHD one from Amazon Italy. But yes to activate you need an Italian address/Codice fiscali which we have but an address can activate up to 10 cards. Wether you could put fake detail in I don't know, never tried. Personally given the trouble I've had getting my kosher gold card working with updated HD channels i'd avoid purchasing second hand ones from eBay unless its a full working package (receiver/card).
 

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In theory address and codice fiscale would need to link back to someone paying the Italian tv licence fee.
 
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