canal + france

leon76

Hi,

Does anyone know if this station can be tuned in on a sky box.

regards

Leon

tomslick

Yes and No. As long as you have a dish pointing at 19east you can tune it in via the other channels but Canal+ is only FTA sometimes. Sky box can't decrypt these channels.

byte

MODEDIT: Moving thread to Foreign Sat forum.

Apogee

Sky changed the firmware on digiboxes a while back requiring them to load the EPG data from Astra 28E on power on, thereby rendering it practically impossible to use them on other satellites.

Following firmware updates in Summer and Autumn 2005, the Digibox now asks you to "Insert your viewing card" if you try to access "Other Channels" (in the Services menu) before the box has loaded the EPG channels list. This is, of course, assuming that you do not have any viewing card!
The important effect of this miniscule change is that it is now impossible to access any channels that may be added from other satellites (such as Astra 19.2°E) until the box has initialised and loaded the channels and other information from Astra 28.2°E. You could then swap LNBs with some sort of switch, but with cheap FTA receivers running in at around £30 (50 euros) - they being more flexible and generally friendlier to use on other satellites - why on earth would you want to bother using a Digibox to watch RAI Uno, etc?

http://www.heyrick.co.uk/ricksworld/digibox/index.html#nonsky

tomslick

Great post Apogee. I didn't know that. Goes to show how sh1t $ky boxes really are!