Question about old 2006 SKY Decoder

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kiwibloke09

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#318480 22-Jan-2025 11:56

Gidday, I have a old Motorola SKY Decoder from 2006 and want to hook it up to my TV. I plugged in the Satellite cable and everything. When i go to channels it only shows SKY open but i doesn't even let me tune in. I am an active customer and i tried putting my exisiting SKY Card into the box but still does the same thing. Please Help

kiwibloke09

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#3334422 22-Jan-2025 11:56

I am happy to post photos

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#3334424 22-Jan-2025 12:02

A 2006 decoder is standard definition mpeg2 only and is showing the standard definition Sky Open channel designed for the Freeview sat service. 99% of all other Sky channels are now encoded using H.264 which your Motorola cannot receive. The entire point of new set top boxes rolled out in 2016-19 was the transition to H.264 and allowed default use of high definition on these channels.

EDIT: Sky Open will disappear in April when Sky migrates to Optus 10 and drops the mpeg2 channels as Freeview transitions to using H.265? - if you believe their literature.

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#3334430 22-Jan-2025 13:09

CORRECTION: Freeview website says Sky Open will stop today, 22nd January 2025.

kiwibloke09

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#3334433 22-Jan-2025 13:21

could you please send the URL link

RunningMan

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#3334437 22-Jan-2025 13:28

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=83&topicid=318137

kiwibloke09

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#3334452 22-Jan-2025 14:24

Thanks, do you know why SKY open isn't working though because it isn't unavailable for my decoder yet. It just says no signal rain fade

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#3334454 22-Jan-2025 14:27

Sky Open in standard definition mpeg2, used by Freeview, is unavailable as of January 22nd. A modern Sky decoder receives the HD H.264 version of the channel.

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kiwibloke09

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#3334457 22-Jan-2025 14:33

ahh ok thanks

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#3334464 22-Jan-2025 14:41

From April Sky Open will be in HD via a Freeview sat decoder.

CORRECTION: HD version of Sky Open should be available today via a modern Freeview sat decoder.

RunningMan

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#3334521 22-Jan-2025 17:12

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CORRECTION: HD version of Sky Open should be available today via a modern Freeview sat decoder.

Doesn't seem to be. Still seems to be a 576i DVB-S stream from 12519H.

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#3334590 22-Jan-2025 22:43

kiwibloke09:

Gidday, I have a old Motorola SKY Decoder from 2006 and want to hook it up to my TV. I plugged in the Satellite cable and everything. When i go to channels it only shows SKY open but i doesn't even let me tune in. I am an active customer and i tried putting my exisiting SKY Card into the box but still does the same thing. Please Help

When they replaced my old (probably Mototola) decoder, they also changed the Sky card to a new one. I had to patch Oscam to allow it to read the new Sky card as it used a different ID number. So the new cards are unlikely to work in the old decoders.