A White UK FTV card

muffler wrote: »

The card is useful to Sky subscribers as it will get the ITV regions which can be recorded via the blue button and if you're lucky enough to get a UTV region card the ITV channels will be listed on the EPG.

If you're not a Sky subscriber I cant see any good reason to have this card other than getting the UK FTA channels on an old Sky box

Don't understand this as only 2 ITV regions appear on EPG in any Sky box i.e. the region to which the card is registered to and ITV London. Otherwise all other ITV regions have to be added under 'other channels' and can only be recorded by connecting to an external device e.g. Video/DVD recorder. Think you're referring to all BBC regions which do appear on EPG. Also what do you mean record by the blue button?

muffler wrote: »

I have all the ITV regions (1, 2, 3 and 4) together with the + channels and 5, 5 USA etc on the EPG. I have a UTV region card

You mean ITV1/2/3/4 channels not all 18 or so regions e.g. Granada/Central/ Yorkshire/Tyne Tees etc?

muffler wrote: »

Thats exactly what I mean Mr Pedantic.

Just for the record I never mentioned anything about regional variations other than UTV so do please keep up at the rear

I am not being pedantic. The ITV regions are known exactly as regions and ITV1/2/3/4 are channels. ITV regions are the regional variations of ITV. You're the one who is confusing channels with regions.

muffler wrote: »

The card is useful to Sky subscribers as it will get the ITV regions which can be recorded via the blue button and if you're lucky enough to get a UTV region card the ITV channels will be listed on the EPG.

If you're not a Sky subscriber I cant see any good reason to have this card other than getting the UK FTA channels on an old Sky box

The Sony etc channels are not available without decryption which this card provides ....... so are not available without it on a generic receiver.

With the card the extra channels are available without sub.
Seems like a pretty good reason to me

Pike Bishop wrote: »

I got one of these cards about 6 months ago.I have a Dreambox 7020s,the Sony tv channels are fairly ****e(ads every 5 minutes)Motors tv good if you like that kind of thing (I dont).The way I looked at it was something for free,the card stopped working 2 months ago,I presume I have to leave it in the neighbours Sky Box over night,but could"nt be bothered.Slainte.

I wouldn't make that assumption ....... mine continues to work without going back in a Sky box.

It did have a couple of glitches early on, but withdrawing the card and giving the connections a wipe seemed to cure whatever was wrong with it.

It has been in an Ariva 120 since I received it.

I had to ring Setanta to activate the card, as I recall.

If I insert the card in the receiver then the LFC TV channel clears but Setanta Ireland remains scrambled.