Pace Prima

Mel

I have just been given an analogue Pace Prima Decoder & installed it on the astra sat, it works fine, but can only watch free to air, ok if your German! does it accept cams, would a viewing card be worth getting hold of? any info on this model of decoder ( what i can do, and can`t do with it) would be appreciated.
signed, a new user with first sat dish.

2old4this

CAMs are digital only. So an analogue revceiver can by definition not accept a CAM.

In the UK this Pace Prima was/is one of the cheaper receivers popular amongst Sky (analogue) subscribers. It has a built-in Videocrypt decoder (the encryption system used by Sky for their analogue services). But whether you want to (or even still CAN) subscribe to Sky analogue now is questionable - they are set to end analogue tranmissions by mid-2001 (and the date keeps being brought forward...)

There are other non-German channels you can receive though. Eg CNN, Sky-News, Eurosport, various shopping & travel channels, Channel-5 (soft encrypted in Videocrypt - hence no card required - just the videocrypt decoder itself), and more. And next to German & English there are others too.
Check out the analogue transponder listings at Lyngsat or Satcodx (see links section).

There's a bit of info on the Pace Prima here:
http://www.visionsat.demon.co.uk/pages/Products.htm

2old