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CI-Module Slot????
What use is this at this time?
Is there a item that is able to be used to give me more channels? I know that there was a law made at the start of Digital TV, as all box had to have a slot in them even cable boxes. Ondigital/ITV Digital. BskyB. Telewest. |
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I know that there was a law made at the start of Digital TV, as all box had to have a slot in them even cable boxes.
Ondigital/ITV Digital. BskyB. Telewest. |
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Absolute and utter rubbish.
I haven't heard that. The slot is for future use. Which may mean nothing at all. J |
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Would the Humax be able to be used as a Sky+ HD PVR if a sky cam was fitted?
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Would the Humax be able to be used as a Sky+ HD PVR if a sky cam was fitted?
I suspect that the reason there is a CI for a CAM is that in order for Humax to be first to market they have taken a generic DVB-S2 HD PVR designed for Europe & other markets & added the Freesat EPG capability for the UK. None of the other Freesat PVRs has a CI as far as I can see. |
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The CI slot is for non-Freesat use, it was relatively inexpensive to add and keeps people interested in the multisat side happy.
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I wish they would use it as a top up system.
So you could take the card to a post office or Paypoint Shop and add channels to it that way. |
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i really wish the CI slot would work - i'd happily pay a bit to watch Eurosport and national Geo on Freesat - just don't want to pay £'s th $ky for channels I won't watch
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The Humax PVR CAM slot works perfectly with the (official) MediaGuard CAM and Dutch Canal Digitaal card for watching encoded Dutch and Belgian channels at 19.2/23.5º E. A great compliment to Humax as the Pace HD DS810XE decoder couldn't cope with this even though it was officially sold in Europe. No wonder it didn't last.
I believe that under EU legislation all satellite decoders must be capable of multi-satellite use but am unaware of any ruling that they have to provide a CI slot. |
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The CI slot is for non-Freesat use, it was relatively inexpensive to add and keeps people interested in the multisat side happy.
Bob - no recording timers - enabling motorised dish cripples dual recording |
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So would these ESPN Cams from Argos work then?
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...&Submit=GO+%3E |
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So would these ESPN Cams from Argos work then?
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...&Submit=GO+%3E Options for ESPN here - http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/channels/espn.html. Hopefully some of the sport will make it to freesat through the new streaming capability. Won't be free though. |
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So would these ESPN Cams from Argos work then?
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...&Submit=GO+%3E |
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Ive said it before i wont be supriesed somewhere down the line eventualy espn or even picturebox will make an appearence on freesat just like they have on topup tv/freeview.
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There was a ruling that all digital boxes had have a cam slot, look at any old Ondigital/Itv digital on the back, even when the card slot was in the front. Also older Telewest boxes had a cam slot, with membership card in the front again.
Also on two of my old Sky boxes have cam slot at the back, with two slot for sky card. As no company came up with a design to sell a cam to fit another companies box and that ITV Digital was knock out by BskyB, so the BBC jump in to save DTT and named it freeview and keep the cost down for people it made it OK for boxes to come to market without a cam slot. ( The cam could not have worked well as a person would not like the cost to a cam by adding the dish for sky if there had a cable box, or DTT box with cable cost put to the cam, so no company would have pushed to keep the rule/ law.) |
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There was a ruling that all digital boxes had have a cam slot, look at any old Ondigital/Itv digital on the back, even when the card slot was in the front. Also older Telewest boxes had a cam slot, with membership card in the front again.
Also on two of my old Sky boxes have cam slot at the back, with two slot for sky card. The slot at the back of a Sky box was for a Firewire interface to feed a digital VCR so you could make digital recordings. In the end Sky never released the Firewire interface (although I have seen one - none working of course, as the Sky boxes were never enabled for it), and digital VCR's died a death anyway. |
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The slot at the back of a Sky box was for a Firewire interface to feed a digital VCR so you could make digital recordings. In the end Sky never released the Firewire interface (although I have seen one - none working of course, as the Sky boxes were never enabled for it), and digital VCR's died a death anyway.
http://cielplus.com/ |
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Is this not such a device?
http://cielplus.com/ Nice toy though, I thought about buying one to play with a number of years back. |
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Is this not such a device?
http://cielplus.com/ |
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The slot at the back of a Sky box was for a Firewire interface to feed a digital VCR so you could make digital recordings. In the end Sky never released the Firewire interface (although I have seen one - none working of course, as the Sky boxes were never enabled for it), and digital VCR's died a death anyway.
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