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Old 04-05-2008, 00:49   #1
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Sky TV via a USB device?

Hi all,

I already have a DVB-T device for my laptop but as I have a redundant Sky TV dish on my house I wondered about a similar device to get free to air sky channels?

I have an old Sky box (not with a card or anything) that I tried and that received all the free channels.

Would this be likely to work with Sky...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=280221843613
or is it only for the other satellite services out there...?
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Re: Sky TV via a USB device?

any satellite tv card/usb will work for the FTA channels including the one that you gave a link to.
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Excellent, cheers
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Re: Sky TV via a USB device?

however you wont get Channel 4, five, Five US, Five US +1, Fiver, Fiver +1 & Sky Three as these channels (although free) require a Sky Digibox & FTV card.
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Re: Sky TV via a USB device?

Hi there,

I've bought a USB satellite box exactly as below:
http://www.uxcell.com/dvbs-digital-s...p-p-11615.html

It wasn't recognised by the PC. I got a replacement and the same thing happened again. I'm worried that the signal level or power or something from the Sky digital LNB might be killing the little box or something? Could that be possible?
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