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    News Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Hi all,

    From my understanding all current Digital Freeview STB`s will become useless towards the end of 2009....

    Something to do with an upgrade to the network? anyone know anymore on this?

    So Yes thats right that TV youve just baught with the built in Freeview reciever to save having a box under the TV will need a box within the next couple of years...... Oh dear...
    Im on a Digital Mission..... LOL....

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    They wont be useless its to do with the proposed upgrade to allow Hi Def channels on Terrestrial Freeview.

    Therefore a new box will be needed to access the HD channels.....current STBs should still be able to access the normal SD channels.

    http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2007/11/nr_20071121
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    BALLS! oh well.. thay cost about 20 quid anyway

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Its exactly the same with $ky, the normal $ky box doesnt access the HD channels but its not exactly obsolete!

    The situation will be exactly the same in 2009 when the Terrestrial Freeview HD channels come into general use.
    Last edited by Nibb; 22nd November 2007 at 04:15 PM.
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    current boxes will work for a good number of years yet
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Are my posts visible in this fucking thread!
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Now lets all not jump to conclusions. Lets wait for Nibb to come on and lets hear what he has to say

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Buhahahahaha!!
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    hi all i was just wondering if the old pace ondigital boxes any good for getting setanta

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    as long as it has a CAM slot, i think you can get setanta.

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Can you still re-program your old gold cards with codes or does that not happen anymore
    thanks cb

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    well as its freeview, its all er.. free, so theres not really any point in hacking it.

    as for the setanta conditional access modules.. i know fuck all about them, but i dont think its possible to watch for free.

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    thanks for that marcode its just that i got the digi box out of the garage after 5 years did a new channel search and there was a few subscription chanels again
    thanks cb

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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Gold card no longer work they upgraded the security.

    Some of the old On/ITVDigital boxes will stop working with the switch over as they are changing the broadcast method from 2k to 8k
    S.6. Another issue considered was the technical specification of DTT transmissions . The DTT transmissions currently use a variant of the DVB-T standard known as 2k. Ofcom consulted on whether there should be a UK wide adoption of an alternative variant known as 8k, which allows the use of single frequency operation. Having considered the consultation responses, Ofcom has decided that the adoption of the 8k format is essential in those areas where single frequency operation will be required. That is those areas where additional transmitters required by Option 3 are to be adopted. It therefore proposes that these areas (covering the Meridian and Anglia regions) will adopt the 8k format when they are converted to all digital operation. The rest of the UK will adopt the 8k format by the final digital switchover date of 2012, unless it can be shown to Ofcom’s satisfaction that the impact of an earlier adoption would have minimal impact on viewers with 2k equipment.
    source: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/cond...ain/statement/

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    gold cards do not work as they switched fro seca1 to seca2 encryption.....not hacked!

    Old on digital boxes will work for many years to come .....its only inpinging on the proposed terrestrial HD freeview channels
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    Default Re: Current STB`s to be Useless come 2009?

    Quote Originally Posted by countrybake View Post
    hi all i was just wondering if the old pace ondigital boxes any good for getting setanta
    Not sure as the card reader in them is a seca1 cam.....some of them have a cam slot at the back......you may need to get a topuptv cam and use a setanta card in that in the rear port.
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