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DVB-C PCI card issue

  • 17-12-2007 5:59pm
    #1
    TradeSoul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭


    I've just bought and set up a new DVB-C PCI card to use with NTL in Dublin. But the card can't pick up a signal from the cable (which works perfectly with the STB)

    Does anyone know if the STB has any additional hardware that would come with a card ?


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    NTL's cable signal is encrypted and so a DVB-C card is of no use. If you want to record TV from your cable service, you'll need to capture the output of the box using a TV card instead.


  • #3
    TradeSoul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭TradeSoul


    AFAIK the signal should be decoded by the CAM interface (which contains the NTL subs card), which should cover the encryption that NTL uses.

    Although it would explain which it's not picking up any signal.


  • #4
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    its illegal to use a DVB-C card as you described Tradesoul.


  • #5
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    its illegal to use a DVB-C card as you described Tradesoul.

    Is it not just against the T&C?


  • #6
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    I believe that you may not connect your 'own' gear to the cable , it must be NTLs in this case . Bit like you 'had' to rent a phone till the 1980s .


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  • #7
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    There are two separate issues:
    1) Using the DVB-c card is against T&C

    2) The onus would be on you to prove you didn't use it for Cable "theft of Service" a criminal offence. They won't believe you.

    So you can't use a DVB-c card.

    I've found that Dunne's Plustron / Beond 98 Euro DVD recorder works better than S-VHS on Shy Pay-TV channels. Should be fine on any non-Macrovision content on NTL set box.

    In Ireland you can use a PCI card for Terrestrial or Satellite. Not Cable.


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