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digital terrestrial will not help me, that's why I was hoping for direct to home satellite. I paste the complete article below. As I understood it it WAS going to be available via satellite. Basically this was to ensure that by 2010 (when the analogue switchoff is planned) nobody was left...

I have now dug up the article (in Spanish) where Spanish Television were announcing the plan to make their channels available to people VIA SATELLITE as of January 2007 ’el próximo mes de enero todos los ciudadanos que residan en territorio español podrán acceder libre y gratuitamente a esos...

.. thanks analogueasat and tesla ... so it is then a dedicated receiver with built-in decryption 'thingy' ..something like a skybox then ? presumably not very versatile (with no empty slots for more CAMs) , not usable for anything else but to receive the few channels it is meant to receive...

A while ago there was info that Spanish TV (the domestic terrestrial channels such as tve1, tve2 etc..) would be avilable via satellite in 2007 I can see them listed now (lyngsat) on Hispasat 30w with encryption called PowerVu Can anybody advise what sort of dedicated receiver (or what CAM)...

Hi guys, is anyone at all getting this on a skybox ?? (I only get ITV3 on this frequency and that's scrambled)

Iggy, can you please specify 'some more' , anything else you get off 2D, most importantly do you get any ITV1 and ITV2, it seems some of them are on V polarized freqs too, namely 10 906 V (which presumably is where you get ITV3 from)

Mark, are you trying to scare the **** out of me?! Is this real, can you post a link to this Guardian article? Well, there is no use kidding ourselves, ever since the tragic days of May 2003 I wake up in the middle of the night screaming NOOO to the dreaded ''no signal is being received''...

No, I am actually fine at the moment, with my original but carefully realigned dish. The signal quality bar though never shows as much as it used to in the good old days- but so far it has been enough to keep it in in all weather.

Hello Zansi, so have you noticed also C4 being any more ''difficult'' than your usual? (you will know why I ask)

Well that's dissappointing. In that case (probably a silly question) would it be possible to take the conditional access system out of the skybox and fit it into some nice/fast/sensitive tuner/open platform receiver ? Or is there more hardware in the skybox besides the decrypting unit that would...

I had a proper look at the back of my box- and sure, after unscrewing a small plate a big hole was looking at me. Now to think for years I had no idea of this little secret and coincidentally I think I could put it to good use if only somebody could confirm if they tried it and how it works? I...

So we will just have to put it down to sky boxes and their mysterious ways. Thanks to all for contributing. Now I am starting to wonder about CAMs

ciao ameolive, when you say you could receive ANY C4, would that mean manual tuning via 'Add channels' offered you multiple choice for C4? and @PaulR the same question really again. Is it possible that a different variation is tuned into via the manual/add channels route as opposed to going to...

You will probably have to do what rolfw suggests. I can confirm though that if you are talking about the signal STRENGTH bar being full of grey, it is not very relevant. When I fiddled with setting up my system, there were times when the strength bar was showing 100%, while the quality bar was...

I didn't realize that. So, actually, I wasn't right. Can I tune to any of these variations at will ? (If yes,presumably with a non-Sky receiver only)(but then no, any other receiver wouldn't get any of C4 or Five as they are scrambled) So could ameolive possibly have tuned into a different...