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<blockquote data-quote="Smirnuff" data-source="post: 125145" data-attributes="member: 10545">Since I no longer have the FireDTV and haven't kept up with developments I have no clue as to whether this is still possible but assume so since no new subscription cards have been issued. Grabbing yourself a FireDTV-S, a Dragon CAM and an appropriate revision of the Predator firmware did indeed allow MP to view encrypted channels when used with a valid Sky Digital subscription card.&nbsp; Quality was very good, channel change times were okay but nowhere near as fast as a Sky box.&nbsp; Overall it didn't leave me with a watching/recording experience that could match a Sky+ box.&nbsp; This was partly due to the FireDTV being a very new product, at the time the team members who owned FireDTV devices were mostly running private beta versions of the firmware, I was the only guy trying it initially with MP and since I didn't do TV related code I had to turn to frodo to get things working, also the MP codebase was 18 months less mature.A few others bought the gear shortly after me and were left happily watching full quality Sky broadcast programmes on their MP boxes.&nbsp; Dunno whether any of them still do, are happy with it etc.You would need a blaster of some sort so that MP can instruct the STB to change channels, the whole reason I wrote the not so great MyBlaster plugin, and a capture card.&nbsp; Its a solution but not the solution for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Smirnuff, post: 125145, member: 10545"] Since I no longer have the FireDTV and haven't kept up with developments I have no clue as to whether this is still possible but assume so since no new subscription cards have been issued. Grabbing yourself a FireDTV-S, a Dragon CAM and an appropriate revision of the Predator firmware did indeed allow MP to view encrypted channels when used with a valid Sky Digital subscription card. Quality was very good, channel change times were okay but nowhere near as fast as a Sky box. Overall it didn't leave me with a watching/recording experience that could match a Sky+ box. This was partly due to the FireDTV being a very new product, at the time the team members who owned FireDTV devices were mostly running private beta versions of the firmware, I was the only guy trying it initially with MP and since I didn't do TV related code I had to turn to frodo to get things working, also the MP codebase was 18 months less mature. A few others bought the gear shortly after me and were left happily watching full quality Sky broadcast programmes on their MP boxes. Dunno whether any of them still do, are happy with it etc. You would need a blaster of some sort so that MP can instruct the STB to change channels, the whole reason I wrote the not so great MyBlaster plugin, and a capture card. Its a solution but not the solution for me. [/QUOTE]

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