Alan Cox writes: > > satellite. But only terrestrial, as far as I know, provides unencrypted > > content. The cable and satellite broadcasters do not provide CAMs for > > their encryptions: you must use their closed receiver boxes. > > You can get DVB and DVB-S cards that work in Linux and use the smart cards > www.linuxtv.org has digital pvr, card drivers and other tools (eg you need > java for this pile) > > The problem is that BSkyB doesn't provide CAMs (conditional access modules that look like and are PCMCIA cards) that can read their smartcards and be plugged into a CI interface of a DVB card or another receiver to decode the encrypted channels. And I gues they never will unless they can assure that no one can record their content with these cards or boxes. Although, with they right hardware you could record the encrypted content and pipe it through the CAM for replay. But in that case you could still take the your smartcard and the encrypted file and replay it on some other hardware, gasp. On the other hand, there are lots of FTA programs that can be received, although most are not English speaking. Marcus
