[linux-dvb] Dish Network a no-go?

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Kyler B. Laird writes:
 > 
 > Earlier, I asked about using a DVB board to
 > receive Dish Network, a DBS in North America
 > (associated with Echostar).  I was encouraged
 > by the responses and have been hoping to get
 > a board with an appropriate conditional
 > access module.
 > 
 > Looking around today, I noticed this thread
 > 	http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/msg00072.html
 > that seems to indicate that I can *not* use a
 > Siemens board to receive Dish Network
 > programs.
 > 
 > Can anyone confirm one way or another the
 > possibility of receiving Dish Network using
 > a DVB card?  Are there other solutions (like
 > the D-box) that I should consider?

I think the main question in the previous mail was what kind of
conditional access module (CAM) the Dish Network uses.
Do they use a Common Interface (CI) type module or are the CAMs
built into the recievers or do they use something else like the 
non-standard CAMs in the D-box?

If they are CI modules they might work with the DVB card.
You will have to buy the CI interface for the DVB card and plug the 
CI-CAM into it. 
But as you might have read in this list some CI-CAMs do not work
with the current firmware.


Ralph


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