Hello Barry
Thanks for your interest in this problem.
The receiver is a HUMAX CI 8100PVR
Hardware version NEO REV 1.0
Software version MPTSCI 1.00.30
Loader version h1.14
The viewing card is an official Canal+ Spain subscription bought in August 2003. I have subscribed for Canal+ Deporte, which is the basic package plus an add on of a number of sports channels including Canal+Deporte1 Canal+Deporte2 etc etc. in otehr words I have not done any programming!
The CAM I am using is an Aston 1.05
I am NOT using any other CAM in the receiver (nor is there one embedded in the receiver).
Other information:
The card itself functions perfectly when used in the receiver supplied with the Canal+ subscription in Spain (as you know when one subscribes to these services in Spain, it is mandatory to rent a receiver off them as well). The subscription was taken out in Aug 2003. From then on, the card and cam worked perfectly well in a Nokia 9800 receiver up until around October 2003. Then after October, things went wrong. Since then, when the cam and card are inserted in the Nokia receiver or in ANY other receiver such as the HUMAX listed above, an intermittent error message comes up
' preview mode, you have no right to watch this channel' and then the picture dies. I returned to my satellite retailer in London last week and experimented by using the Canal+ card in other Aston 1.05 cams and indeed with other receivers but this odd problem still persists.
I would be delighted to have your input.