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Smart card in another box
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I have telewest with sky sports etc., Im visiting my gran this weekend, she also has telewest but no sky sports.
Does anyone know if i can just take my smart card out and use it in my grans STB and get my sky sports.
I dont see why not as i can still only watch it in one place.
I phoned telewest but the guy just told me it was illegal becuase then i could watch sky sports in two houses at once , i tried to explain that i couldnt cus id take the smart card, hence disabling the STB, but he didnt seem to grasp the concept so i politely ended the call
If anyone replies could they confirm wether they have done this or are just guessing? Ive already guessed i can.
Thanks
Does anyone know if i can just take my smart card out and use it in my grans STB and get my sky sports.
I dont see why not as i can still only watch it in one place.
I phoned telewest but the guy just told me it was illegal becuase then i could watch sky sports in two houses at once , i tried to explain that i couldnt cus id take the smart card, hence disabling the STB, but he didnt seem to grasp the concept so i politely ended the call
If anyone replies could they confirm wether they have done this or are just guessing? Ive already guessed i can.
Thanks
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The reasoning behind this is to prevent fraud. Although (as far as I am aware) it is not possible to 'copy' a smartcard as yet, if it did ever become possible, this pairing of cards to boxes would prevent any unauthorised copies of smartcards being used.
R.
Just a little extra question then , if I was realy desperate, could I take my box and card together and use my grans incomining cable?? or is there something downstream of the box to thwart me???
thanks again
(and yes, it will work fine)
Shoudnt be too hard to sus out tho.
But as its illegal, i will do no such thing
I have tried this and it worked in my grans house but that was when she had analogue, now that she has digital i tried it and only got front row ads on every single channel. Also i tried the smartcard thing, it decrypts the channels that are paid for on the smart card but you just get a blank screen and a smart card invalid message so it's not really worth the hassle and i know how you feel about having less channels at your grans, i even persueded her to upgrade to more channels but i just got a reply that it costs too much money
Hahaha. This thread is hilarious.
Yeah, it's really that easy to hack cable
Just take the whole box and card with you. It will work on any digital enabled telewest line.
Yeah, ive been hacking sims since skool mate, im not saying ive actually hacked tw, just that i theoretically find it possible, using equipment i allready have
Oh, and you can't 'hack' digital cable due to the head-end knowing exactly what's going on with your box. (As far as I know!)
2. You can hack wot u want, if u know how.
Quite right.
It is possible. But it's illegal and shouldn't be done.
Back to the original subject, I dont see what would be wrong with taking the box and card with you. Unless moving the box to a different address is against telewests terms.
Of course it will work. Why wouldn't it?
One cable feed is the same as another.
Zen