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RE: OT Sky Digiboxes



You should be able to ring sky and tell them you replaced the box though.
What you can't do is swap a card between two boxes on a regular basis, but I can see no reason why you can't get them to sort your subscription out to move itp ermanently to the new box.....
 
You need to ring the BBC I think it is to get the FTA card.  I think there's a number in the tech support list you can bring up on the sky box. 
Failing that, do a web search on sky digital abroad/for ex-pats.
A lot of ex-pats get granny or whoever to get the fta card (limited to one per address) and ship it over to them so they can get 'proper english channels' and not just 'foreign muck'.
 
HTH,
 
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 June 2002 14:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT Sky Digiboxes

Matthew,

 

AIUI on my info, the card and the box are "married" so you cannot just swap the card over, sorry L

 

K.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Norman [mailto:mafiu@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 June 2002 14:44
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] OT Sky Digiboxes

 

All this talk about sky digiboxes made me realise that my amstrad DRX100 is probably crap as well as out of warrenty.

 

If I were to ebay myself a new digibox, is it just the case of swapping the box and the viewing card?  Or is there some other secret serial number that sky need to know.

 

If its the former - with the exception of the 'Buy a sony' thread - I might by accident buying a similar age box - is any one aware of a website with comparisons (and ages) of the boxes so that I can make an informed choice?

 

Thinking further - where do you obtain free to air cards if I wanted to use the replaced box elsewhere, and what sort of double lnb would I need to purchase to share the dish between two boxes?

 

Matthew - whose world is suddenly opening up with different possibilities.

 

 



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