can sky be unlocked using a different box?

I have heard that there are sky tv decoders available which can view all channels without subscribing to sky.

A.Hunter
February 2008

Hi there i am a Sky engineer Here in spain ( yotr not suppost to have it i know ) but u can buy other so called digiboxes witch work all the same they just dont look like sky


hope this answers your question

Dan
February 2008

yes you can use a dreambox with nds/sky

brian
January 2008

I have no idea whether that box will work or not but here is some background.

Sky uses a Conditional Access Method method called Videoguard. The IP is owned by another News Corp company (NDS) and they do not license it to anyone else. So generally speaking you need a Sky box to decrypt Vidoeguard.

The other part of their encryption method is contained on the Viewing Card. They are ONLY available from Sky and have not been hacked.

Caveat Emptor

t
January 2008