Dae2
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- My Satellite Setup
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Dish1: Freesat direct to panasonic plasma TV
Dish2: TotalTV box currently dead
PC: Various, Windows & Linux
- My Location
- Berkshire
Will a Total TV card work in any other NDS box, e.g. Sky?
I've just imported a TotalTV box & card into the UK, but it seems the box is faulty and needs to go back to the shop. Since the shop is in Serbia, this may take me a while to manage.
In the meantime, I noticed that the card encryption is made by the same company used by Sky, and I wondered if any old NDS box would be able to use the (allegedly) working, activated, card I have sitting doing nothing.
If I buy a second-hand sky box, will I be able to use it? Will I have to be careful about voltages? I gather the Total TV card uses 3.3v like the newer Sky cards, but will an old box fry my card?
One day I might get an Icecrypt S4000 PVR, which has a card reader, but then I gather I'll need to tweak the software to cope with NDS cards, so that doesn't sound like a quick fix.
Right now I'm looking for any solution that doesn't involve shipping stuff to/from Serbia.
Any plausible suggestions would be appreciated.
I've just imported a TotalTV box & card into the UK, but it seems the box is faulty and needs to go back to the shop. Since the shop is in Serbia, this may take me a while to manage.
In the meantime, I noticed that the card encryption is made by the same company used by Sky, and I wondered if any old NDS box would be able to use the (allegedly) working, activated, card I have sitting doing nothing.
If I buy a second-hand sky box, will I be able to use it? Will I have to be careful about voltages? I gather the Total TV card uses 3.3v like the newer Sky cards, but will an old box fry my card?
One day I might get an Icecrypt S4000 PVR, which has a card reader, but then I gather I'll need to tweak the software to cope with NDS cards, so that doesn't sound like a quick fix.
Right now I'm looking for any solution that doesn't involve shipping stuff to/from Serbia.
Any plausible suggestions would be appreciated.