Ch 4 HD

[DJP]

Success wit ITV HD on my iCord at last.
A friend who has the confidence & knowledge of PC's set up the Uniformula. The iCord didn't want to know the "new" channel that we set up with PID's given on this forum. We played around a bit by copying the BBC HD channel & then cancelling the last 4 digits of the PID's; the software then converted thosePID's into the digits it wnted to see & Bingo.

Getting back to the use of a CAM & my Sky card in the iCord as mentioned in my last posting.
OK so the EPG won't work but will I be able to get the encrypted HD channels that are on my basic "Family package"; Discovery etc.?
I don't think it's worth the expense if it will only enable me to get c4.

Cheers
John

 

[DJP]

Sorry for quoting my own posting but I'm hoping somebody out there will be kind enough to answer my question.

Getting back to the use of a CAM & my Sky card in the iCord as mentioned in my last posting.

"OK so the EPG won't work but will I be able to get the encrypted HD channels that are on my basic "Family package"; Discovery etc.?
I don't think it's worth the expense if it will only enable me to get C4 HD."

Basically what I'm asking is; will fitting the correct CAM with the correct programing & my present Sky card permit me to receive Sky programs within my package in HD?
I assume that with the Sky card set up & working, that all of the channels in my Family package will be there on my Humax.
That is rather a pointless exercise as the Sky card in my Digibox does it all except nor being able to record programs.
So, in a nutshell, will I be able to get the encrypted HD programs using my Sky (SD??? not Sky+) card?

Thanks
John

 

[Llew]

No, you won't get Sky HD channels with your card. End of story.

Llew

 

[Analoguesat]

You would need the Sky HDTV subscription ( + £10/month ) to allow you to watch the HD versions of the channels.

 

[Robbo]

The question remains however, will a non Sky receiver, (be it a Humax, Technomate,Dreambox etc, with the necessary CAMs (eg Trex, Diablo) or patch or Image plug-in etc) let you watch the Sky HD channels with a Sky HD subscription.?

I don't subscribe, so can't try it. I can confirm that Sky movies Premiere HD works though. http://www.satellites.co.uk/satelli...595-sky-movies-premiere-hd-currently-ftv.html

 

[JTA]

The question remains however, will a non Sky receiver, (be it a Humax, Technomate,Dreambox etc, with the necessary CAMs (eg Trex, Diablo) or patch or Image plug-in etc) let you watch the Sky HD channels with a Sky HD subscription.?

Sky HD is reported working on a dreambox 800 (and 8000 ?), when using a Sky HD subscription card. Of course, to get a Sky HD subscription card, you need to buy a HD digibox, which can then be shelved .............

 

[stvy]

Hi,

I can confirm that a valid S*y HD subscription card clears all the channels to which it is entitled (e.g. SD and HD) on a DM800 using newcs v1.60 and MGcamd v1.30.

So it works........

However I have had the odd problem with the card deactivating. I.e. this setup does not seem to keep the card alive. (2 occurrences in the last 8 months.)

I never had any problems with the card deactivating when I ran newcamd v6.## in a DM7020-s but that is not an option for HD......

Cheers,

Stvy

 

[DJP]

Thanks, we got there.
So to get Sky HD on any suitably set up FTA box I need an HD subscription.
Question answered; I wonder if things will change?

Thanks a lot chaps
John