Sky TV Change Viewing Cards

hi there, i recently bought a second hand white freesat card off ebay but can not recieve channel 5... i have rung sky and they have said the card has been cancelled.... i thought when buyin this card that no matter what i would be able to recieve channel 5 is there any way round this so that i can view it???? thanx amanda

if you can get bbc2 in the evening you can also add channel5 freeview to your sky box

If you have the older firmware, you may be used to the Digibox messing up channel updates so that programme information appears to go 'missing' as well as entire channels (including those you were just watching) becoming 'unavailable' when you try to select them, and also the box getting stuck 'Searching for listings' when you try to view the EPG.
All of these problems appear to have been cured in the newer firmware! Yay!
If you are not certain that your signal is good enough, just hook up your box and watch TV. You may discover at some stage the box will reset itself (typically in the middle of something you're watching! A quick flick to the system status and you'll see the new firmware has been installed 'in the background'.


I 'won' a pace box a while back on that favourite auction site and had similar problems to you. I just left the box connected and eventually it updated. From memory, I left it on Sky News overnight and that did the trick. __________________

Good luck Ian