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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Oyster Caro on Narrowboat
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<blockquote data-quote="m0mcx" data-source="post: 520086" data-attributes="member: 290674"><p>Dreambox. Cool, I'll go take a look. [later] Woops, I can buy one for 65 quid or 200 or so. Woah! More research. [unwoops]</p><p></p><p>Back to reality: Further research is suggesting that depending if and when (and which) box I buy, I won't be able to use my existing Sky card. This is confusing because when the little man from Sky came out to the house recently, he did a warranty repair - and actually replaced absolutely everything (dish, coax, the lot) including the Amstrad box. The existing card in the old box worked in the new box without him making a phone call. When I say "worked", I mean that Disney and Discovery (our fav's) were there. He did make the call though and said that it would be a few hours before all the channels came alive, but of course we don't subscribe to films or sprt, only kids and the discovery stuff (which all worked).</p><p></p><p>Piecing 2 + 2 together from posts here, I'm starting to think that after a few hours in the narrowboat (assuming we took the card there), the card would discover that it's not married to the box and revert to being a freeview type card.</p><p></p><p>Am I right..?</p><p></p><p>Rolf, as regards "it can be a lot of fun to play with" - this is certainly one of my primary reasons since I'm an amateur radio op and love to muck about, but the kids won't be happy when it all stops because I fncked it up!</p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p><p></p><p>Callum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0mcx, post: 520086, member: 290674"] Dreambox. Cool, I'll go take a look. [later] Woops, I can buy one for 65 quid or 200 or so. Woah! More research. [unwoops] Back to reality: Further research is suggesting that depending if and when (and which) box I buy, I won't be able to use my existing Sky card. This is confusing because when the little man from Sky came out to the house recently, he did a warranty repair - and actually replaced absolutely everything (dish, coax, the lot) including the Amstrad box. The existing card in the old box worked in the new box without him making a phone call. When I say "worked", I mean that Disney and Discovery (our fav's) were there. He did make the call though and said that it would be a few hours before all the channels came alive, but of course we don't subscribe to films or sprt, only kids and the discovery stuff (which all worked). Piecing 2 + 2 together from posts here, I'm starting to think that after a few hours in the narrowboat (assuming we took the card there), the card would discover that it's not married to the box and revert to being a freeview type card. Am I right..? Rolf, as regards "it can be a lot of fun to play with" - this is certainly one of my primary reasons since I'm an amateur radio op and love to muck about, but the kids won't be happy when it all stops because I fncked it up! Cheers! Callum. [/QUOTE]
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