this may sound a silly question but im gonna ask anyway - if a channel is encrypted with say idereto2 - does it mean that the channel will offer a subscription\card for a fee for u to watch it?
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is it like the early days of videocrypt with Sky Anaolgue where channels were free but were encrypted - u just needed a decoder box (or built in decoder to the receiver) in order to watch the channel - then much later came the fees for smart cards.....
i will soon have a lnb to get both hotbird and astra - my receiver is both analogue and digital - so im wondering what i will be able to receive before getting a CAM. will a cam decrypt some channels straight "out of the box" without any smartcards needed ?
im hoping for quite a few channels being made available to me when i get this system sorted out.
OR
is it like the early days of videocrypt with Sky Anaolgue where channels were free but were encrypted - u just needed a decoder box (or built in decoder to the receiver) in order to watch the channel - then much later came the fees for smart cards.....
i will soon have a lnb to get both hotbird and astra - my receiver is both analogue and digital - so im wondering what i will be able to receive before getting a CAM. will a cam decrypt some channels straight "out of the box" without any smartcards needed ?
im hoping for quite a few channels being made available to me when i get this system sorted out.