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Foreign Digital Systems.

  • 21-07-2004 9:52am
    #1
    Chong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I would like to get maybe hotbird, but what i would like to have it for would be Canal Digitaal. Canal Digitaal is the dutch digital carrier. I was told you could buy a cam and get a canal digitaal card and place it in it. To get the card I had to have an address in Holland, in which I happen to have relatives living there. But what i want to find out is it all legal to do this and hypothetically could i buy a canal digitaal box in holland and use it here.

    Thanking You

    Willem


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  • #2
    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    You should be able to buy a decoder with a Seca-Mediaguard Cam in Ireland.

    If you don't want Canal + 1 & 2, you can get a card that gives you all the standard Dutch channels (Ned 1,2,3, RTL 4,5 Net 5 Sbs TMF Veronica etc. etc.) for only 15 euros a year or so. A pretty good deal if you ask me.


  • #3
    seano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭seano


    Originally posted by big willy
    Hi

    I would like to get maybe hotbird, but what i would like to have it for would be Canal Digitaal. Canal Digitaal is the dutch digital carrier. I was told you could buy a cam and get a canal digitaal card and place it in it. To get the card I had to have an address in Holland, in which I happen to have relatives living there. But what i want to find out is it all legal to do this and hypothetically could i buy a canal digitaal box in holland and use it here.

    Thanking You

    Willem

    The dutch channels are on astra 1.for further information you can drop me a line.
    Check my profile for website address etc.


  • #4
    kramlq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭kramlq


    For (Ned1/2/3/Rtl4/Rtl5/SBS6/Net5/Veronica/Fox Kids/TMF you need:
    - Irdeto cam + irdeto card (but these cards are now very hard to get)
    - SECA cam (Also known as aston or mediaguard cam) + SECA card

    If you want to subscribe to the additional channels (BBC Prime,
    Hallmark, TCM, Eurosport, MTV channels etc) you need to use SECA.

    BVN TV is free on both astra1 at 19e and hotbird at 13e.

    A standard box with integrated or plug in seca cam should work. You
    probably wont get any interactive features unless you use a dedicated
    dutch (philips I think) box with MHW support.

    With regard to legality, an irish person in europe can get a sky subscription
    here (via sat vendor or a friend) and bring it abroad but this is a bit of a
    grey area. The consensus seems to be that it is not criminal act but is
    contrary to civil law as sky prohibit this in their terms and conditions so you
    would be breaking them. It is probably a similar situation with foreign subcribers
    to Canal Digitaal NL.


  • #5
    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    Bars all over Amsterdam show Sky Sports and advertise it openly. This has been going on for well over a decade. Nobody seems to care.

    The same at Dutch resorts in Spain: hotels and bars openly advertise having Dutch television.

    For rights reasons, the satellite companies are obliged by law to make it as difficult as possible for people in other countries to subscribe.


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