[mythtvnz] Extracting EPG from sky

[Drew Whittle]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:47 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:


> Okay, how about going back to my first suggestion and buying a cheap  
> DVB-S card coupled with a PVR150.  The DVB card can then extract FTA  
> channels as well as EPG data, while a PVR150 can pick up the sky  
> channels (via composite and an IR blaster).  A budget DVB-S card is  
> $160 or less, a PVR150 is $150, while a PVR500 is $270, so you're  
> barely paying more.  Any chance of sky choosing to encrypt the FTA  
> channels or their EPG data?

That would work.

Sky can't encrypt the FTA channels, they aren't Sky ones.

In theory Sky could encrypt the EPG data, but that would mean breaking
the spec, changing the firmware in every decoder or the decoder if need
be. 

I don't see Sky doing that anytime soon.

:D