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Originally Posted by bison1947
Very interesting Posts.
First of all i am a Satallite user but having just moved house
i have not had time to setup my 1.2 meter motorised Sat dish.
I view Tv through my pc using both a DVB-S & a DVB-C pci cards.
Hence all i wanted is to watch a few channels till i get my Sat dish up.
I do not want to watch VM scrambled channels - I do not want to watch
freeview channels.
I do not want to steal from VM i do not want to hack N3 ( impossible anyway )
The card i am using is quite legal (not a box i bought down the pub).
Hence i am not a thief or a scally looking for something for nowt.
but if some of you think that watching BBc news & a few other fta channels
is breaking the law GOD HELP US ALL.
For those interested
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I totally understand where you are coming from, it's clear you do not intend to obtain pay services on the sly, as you quite rightly say you cannot do that anyway with the set up you have.
However Virgin Media's terms and conditions state:-
You may not use any reception equipment to receive the television services other than the equipment we have provided to you for the express purpose of receiving the television services (such as a set-top box).
I think that's all some people are saying but perhaps there's a nicer way of saying it. I am a paying customer and as I have openly said used the cable tuner in my TV to see if any new services are testing. I have no intention whatsoever to steal anything (i'm paying anyway) but to the letter of the law (well the terms and conditions) even I shouldn't really directly connect my TV to the network.
My understanding is it isn't illegal but is against VM's terms and conditions, maybe it's because you could affect the network for paying customers as it's not approved kit, I know that's unlikely but there you go. It's really upto you what you decide to do but I would guess there are probably other sites you are more likely to get the answer you are looking for. I honestly don't know the answer anyway as my TV has autotune and I am not on the Liverpool network even though I am only in Wirral. Liverpool is an ex-Telewest area and Wirral is an ex-CWC area. They might use the same frequencies, then again they might not.
I hope that helps, well sort of