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<blockquote data-quote="Razor" data-source="post: 27471" data-attributes="member: 175377"><p>Its early days yet so don’t know much, but here is what I do know.</p><p></p><p>The suppliers of this type of TV are very secretive about how it works, back in the old days (pre sky) our terrestrial coverage was so bad it was said 22% of rural Ireland could not receive RTE via the old aerial on the roof. This led to pirate masts popping up on some hills, giant aerials taking in signal, amplifying it and relaying it to anyone who would share the cost. After some time they found that with some tweaking they could pull in HTV, UTV, BBC W. The government moved to outlaw these pirates and pull down the masts, but two where quite well advanced and had worked out carriage fees with ITV, BBC, and where granted a license. To this day we still only have two providers of this type of TV and even if their names have changed or have been taken over by bigger companies (NTL) they are still pirates at heart.</p><p></p><p>They will provide the aerial for the roof, a square mesh type dish with some type of LNB never got a good look at it.</p><p>Also your choice of box, analogue, digital, but it is not for sale, you can only rent this equipment and if you cancel they come out and take back their stuff. The analogue box has built in encryption a variant of the old sky encryption and can receive 16 or so channels. The digibox has 100 channels and two card slots, and when they install they pair a card with each box.</p><p></p><p>Everything is kept quite, they never talk about frequency, or how they encrypt, as a system like this is wide open. Maybe they have visions of some guy with a shopping trolley on his roof watching SkySports for free. What I do know is that they pull signal from 28e unscramble it, then scramble with their own system and send it back out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Razor, post: 27471, member: 175377"] Its early days yet so don’t know much, but here is what I do know. The suppliers of this type of TV are very secretive about how it works, back in the old days (pre sky) our terrestrial coverage was so bad it was said 22% of rural Ireland could not receive RTE via the old aerial on the roof. This led to pirate masts popping up on some hills, giant aerials taking in signal, amplifying it and relaying it to anyone who would share the cost. After some time they found that with some tweaking they could pull in HTV, UTV, BBC W. The government moved to outlaw these pirates and pull down the masts, but two where quite well advanced and had worked out carriage fees with ITV, BBC, and where granted a license. To this day we still only have two providers of this type of TV and even if their names have changed or have been taken over by bigger companies (NTL) they are still pirates at heart. They will provide the aerial for the roof, a square mesh type dish with some type of LNB never got a good look at it. Also your choice of box, analogue, digital, but it is not for sale, you can only rent this equipment and if you cancel they come out and take back their stuff. The analogue box has built in encryption a variant of the old sky encryption and can receive 16 or so channels. The digibox has 100 channels and two card slots, and when they install they pair a card with each box. Everything is kept quite, they never talk about frequency, or how they encrypt, as a system like this is wide open. Maybe they have visions of some guy with a shopping trolley on his roof watching SkySports for free. What I do know is that they pull signal from 28e unscramble it, then scramble with their own system and send it back out. [/QUOTE]
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