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Well, that's what I was asking - but I would imagine that the Astra satellite will still be used since it is a feed as well as direct-to-home. But since Sky don't have the contract themselves, they would need to disable their customers' viewing cards.

That's why I'm saying that if someone were to accidentally leave their card out of their box when it should be updated for Sky customers, a legitimage Sky card that didn't get the message for whatever reason might continue to work in a third-party Videoguard CAM that can't pass updates to the card. It would eventually switch off, of course.

Alternatively, the signal will disappear from Astra but VM has a fibre connection ready to go.