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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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