Cards
MMMM!!!! rolfw
yes I can see that sky like to make lot's of money, so much so that they had to spend over £700,000,000 or so a while ago, you must rember, something about tax's? the year they tryed to buy Man U and brought Sat 1. and before I go on yes I do buy channels off of sky. I have two box's so that the family can watch more than just one channel at a time.
one for sat and one for terrestrial. I would like you also to be aware that all the fta channels have to pay to go on to skys listings,,,, as you are also aware there are other channels which the box's can recive from the same satellite not on the listings.
Yes channel five was encrypted as you say soft encrypted
no card required... that was done to protect the uk actors ( another kettel of fish ) as as why the bbc have reduced the size of there footprint.
belive it or not the bbc are saving the licence payers money by not paying for the encryption.
As for the itv channels they are sponsored by adds, so I don't think the licence payer will foot the bill. who else uses adds for sponsorship, oh yes sky, but unlike itv they don't have to maintain ground transmitters.
(wonder why they charge).
A bit of info for you,,, to go from satellite to terrestrial takes two buttons were as to go form satellite channel to another satellite channel takes three buttons. ( sky button (1,2,3,4,or 5 ) for terrestrial.... Buttons 101,102,103,104,105, or fav, fav,fav,fav, up to 20 times for sattellite,
This year is the first time the channel islands and others have had a year without the microwave link lifting through the weather.
As I said in my last comment they changed the coding so they should fund the cards.
I'm sorry but I've got to say something about the next statement.
1. BREACH OF FREE MINIDISH AND DIGIBOX TERMS:
As you know, it is a standard term of the free minidish and digibox offer and the interactive discount contract that a viewing card must be kept in the digibox for at least 12 months.
If a customer is not subscribing to a pay-Tv service, they will not be able to obtain a viewing card and this requirement will be waived. However, if in the next 12 months they obtain a viewing card for their digibox or it becomes possible to obtain one without subscribing to a pay-TV service, the requirement to keep the viewing card in the box for the remainder of the 12 month period will apply from that point.
This great deal is utter rubbish.... You cannot get a free minidish without subscribing to at least the minimunm package for one full years contract....
P.S. yes you can unsubcribe to sky after a year as long as the card is a new one. sky have told the bbc that they will honor these cards for as least five years.... ( lets see )
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