mawa
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PC in the office
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Now sorry guys I am new to this and I just want to clarify some things;
1) Is it LEGAL to put a sky viewing card into a media PC providing you do pay your Sky subscription?
2) What hardware is needed exactly; obviously I know how to build the PC itself in terms of mobo, memory, cpu etc-i'm just not clear on what TV card is needed and what graphics card is needed? But most importantly I have heard many different ways of inserting the sky viewing card into the PC; i've heard about CI's (common interfaces) to which a CAM (conditional access module) must then be inserted. I have also heard about smart card readers??? Does anybody have a definitive answer?
3) The logical progression is onto what software is needed in order to run a media PC? Just install Windows Vista Ultimate? But then how do you browse the Sky programme guide and select which channel you wish to watch?
4) Finally; I do not have one of these flat screen LCD or Plasma TV's and it is not HD never mind 1080p so I have no HDMI connection; therefore is it still possible to connect to PC to the TV and if so what cable is needed? If not please still respond to the other questions with any answers you may have because I could always upgrade the TV at some point
Many thanks for any help and I know the questions are probably pretty stupid it's just that I know nothing about TVs. I have tried to read marksteel's post but he was talking about different connections to other machines throughout the house and stuff so I didnt really understand it all (not to mention some of the terminology used). Anyway it would be great if someone could tell me exactly what is needed and whether it is actually legal to do any of this in anycase; I presume that taking standard freeview straight onto your media centre is perfectly legal provided it isnt distributed or duplicated but i'm not sure about the actual sky subscriber channels because as I understand it the sky viewing card actually encrypts the data.
1) Is it LEGAL to put a sky viewing card into a media PC providing you do pay your Sky subscription?
2) What hardware is needed exactly; obviously I know how to build the PC itself in terms of mobo, memory, cpu etc-i'm just not clear on what TV card is needed and what graphics card is needed? But most importantly I have heard many different ways of inserting the sky viewing card into the PC; i've heard about CI's (common interfaces) to which a CAM (conditional access module) must then be inserted. I have also heard about smart card readers??? Does anybody have a definitive answer?
3) The logical progression is onto what software is needed in order to run a media PC? Just install Windows Vista Ultimate? But then how do you browse the Sky programme guide and select which channel you wish to watch?
4) Finally; I do not have one of these flat screen LCD or Plasma TV's and it is not HD never mind 1080p so I have no HDMI connection; therefore is it still possible to connect to PC to the TV and if so what cable is needed? If not please still respond to the other questions with any answers you may have because I could always upgrade the TV at some point
Many thanks for any help and I know the questions are probably pretty stupid it's just that I know nothing about TVs. I have tried to read marksteel's post but he was talking about different connections to other machines throughout the house and stuff so I didnt really understand it all (not to mention some of the terminology used). Anyway it would be great if someone could tell me exactly what is needed and whether it is actually legal to do any of this in anycase; I presume that taking standard freeview straight onto your media centre is perfectly legal provided it isnt distributed or duplicated but i'm not sure about the actual sky subscriber channels because as I understand it the sky viewing card actually encrypts the data.