New NDS Cards?

Digital.Diablo

First off: Admins, if this is in the wrong thread, please move it forthwith.

Right, I've done a search and can't find anyone here discussing Sly UK issuing new subscriber cards, currently estimated to be April this year. Its been discussed at ds forums and it looks like Sky staff are having their's issued immediately.
What are peoples thoughts on how the Dreambox and CCCam et al will handle these new cards? Are we suspecting that the encryption routines have been modified to break these 'work arounds' to force people into using their Sky Cards.

I'm certainly hoping that they're just refreshed cards, rather than complete reworkings. It will be annoying going back to the Crappy Sky Box and only having unencrypted stuff on the DB, at least until the clever guys writing the CCCam type software work out how to tweak it, especially because, as far as I'm concerned, the Sky Encryption is unbroken and we're all good boys and girls and continue to pay our subscriptions.

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellit...tml#post816435

salv90

This subject is one the reasons why i am browsing the forums today. I was wondering if anyone had some further knowledge on these card, as there all sorts of rumours flying around at the moment.

Analoguesat

There is a card swap coming. That much we know. Anything else is just guesswork at the moment.

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Crusty Burke

I currently pay two lots of Sky subs. One is my UK Sky HD sub and the other is an Irish sub purely intended so I can watch RTE 1, RTE 2, TV3 and TG4 on my Dreambox.

If Sky decide to block Linux boxes somehow then I would give serious thought to "moving" my UK Sky HD sub to Northern Ireland to get at least RTE and TG4 (not bothered about TV3). The Irish sub would get canned as I certainly don't want to go back to a simple zapper box with no direct recording facility.

Would a mail forwarding service like Mail Boxes etc. work with a Sky sub?

I don't necessarily have a problem with Sky tightening their security but surely the time has come for Sky and NDS to issue a legit CAM so HTPC and non-Sky boxes can legitimately watch paid for Sky channels??

Robbo

Yep, that would be a good idea for subscribers I think. But would it ever happen? I doubt it.

B16MCC

Guys, isn't this card change simply going to employ the latest incarnation from NDS ? Which is just what Sky Italia have done , as they now use NDS3. Still works in a Dreambox , you just have to watch your clock speed !

rolfw

As Analoguesat said earlier, at this stage everything is speculation, the only concrete fact is that they are going to be swapped.

I can't however see the point of a card swap if it doesn't address the burgeoning cardsharing industry, unless of course there is a serious breech in the system of which we are not fully aware (ignoring of course the guy down Scunthorpe market who sells chipped boxes).

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Crusty Burke

How do you regulate the clock speed?

dasteelman

if you are using cccam there is a line in cccam.cfg which allows you to set your clockspeed

the line starts with:-

SMARTCARD CLOCK SPEED

Nice but Dim

B16MCC

Tip:- 3.58mhz for an NDS3 card in NewCS