How did they?

newgen2005

Just a retro analogue satellite question. When you upgraded your subscription say add movies to your package. How did they upgrade your package, did they beam a signal down to your dish?. And could they tell what channels your were viewing?

Analoguesat

There was no return path on the analogue boxes, subs changes were handled by ota upgrade on the cards. If you downgraded and your card missed the kill command, it stayed active until it had a kill command successfully uploaded onto it. I know of one card which was kept out of the box and only inserted occasionally to watch something specific which stayed active for months at the end..

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Analoguesat's message to the world Analogue forever! RIP BBC2 analogue on all Scottish Borders transmitters, switched off 0031GMT November 6th 2008 Final analogue switch off from all Scottish Borders transmitters - BBC1 ITV C4 & C5 - 0010GMT November 20th 2008.