Random question - Cable without the box???

[breeza]

Random question.. pretty sure the answers gonna be no not a chance but recently bought a new samsung lcd which is capable of receiving air & cable signals and has a card slot on the side. Haven't done much research what is officially for but guessing it's pretty useless in the current UK market?

Anyone ever been able to use their tv ever to directly watch cable or anything cool people know we can do with these nifty card readers in them??

or anyway with a cable box or something you can decode the signal before u send it to the tv? as known a few people to randomly stick cable feeds into the back of their tv and to pick up the fta channels via them.

[reddiesel]

Originally Posted by breeza

Random question.. pretty sure the answers gonna be no not a chance but recently bought a new samsung lcd which is capable of receiving air & cable signals and has a card slot on the side. Haven't done much research what is officially for but guessing it's pretty useless in the current UK market?

Anyone ever been able to use their tv ever to directly watch cable or anything cool people know we can do with these nifty card readers in them??

or anyway with a cable box or something you can decode the signal before u send it to the tv? as known a few people to randomly stick cable feeds into the back of their tv and to pick up the fta channels via them.

Most are for terestrial digital tv and have terestrial tuners built in, i think sony do one with a cable tuner, not sure if yours has, you need a cam and card to go in the slot.
The signal you get by sticking cable in tv is analogue ,only a few basic channels, which is gradually being turned off all over the country,

[breeza]

pretty sure its got a cable tuner as can choose to scan for aerial or cable channels.. will grab the manual this week and have a read. Anyone ever got one to decode the channels with the card??

[BL4K3Y]

What TV is it? I saw a new Samsung television in Bright House at the weekend which had a CAM slot in the side and the specifications said it was DVB-C capable. If it does support cable, you will need a Nagravision CAM and a capable programmer such as the CAS3.

[breeza]

yeah is dvb-t and dvb-c compable..

model num is SAMSUNG LE26B450C4WXXU

HD Ready LCD LE26B450 LE26B450 - LCD TV - Television | SAMSUNG




ok so big question is how tuff are nagravision cams to program and how much are the programmers usually lol!

[BL4K3Y]

I think this is the one I saw: LED TV Series 8 UE46B8000 - LED TV - Television | SAMSUNG.

It also has an ethernet port and also wireless capabilities so that you can watch TV online!

[BL4K3Y]

Originally Posted by breeza

yeah is dvb-t and dvb-c compable..

model num is SAMSUNG LE26B450C4WXXU

HD Ready LCD LE26B450 LE26B450 - LCD TV - Television | SAMSUNG




ok so big question is how tuff are nagravision cams to program and how much are the programmers usually lol!

Cardman's CAMs <<< that site sells Nagravision CAMs, I couldn't tell you how to program one mate as i've never used one but I know that the CAM is the same as a box because it has it's own unique box key so you will need to pair the smartcard to the CAM for it to work .

[breeza]

Saw the programmers are about 60 upwards.. right time to get looking for tutorials!

[BL4K3Y]

PM me you e-mail address mate, I might be able to help out with certain aspects of your "quest" lol.

[breeza]

lol..

'The most interesting aspect of this CAM, for me at least, are those numbers just below the barcode. Any service provider would commonly call this number the CAM's serial number but to the rest of us it is more well known as the BoxKey'