Problems with New FTV card.

omathuna

Guys,
Can someone help?
I just received a new FTV card (Blue one) for my second Hand Digibox. When I insert it I get a message "Please insert old card and retry in 5 mins". But I do not have and old card and taking out the new one and replacing it 5 minutes later does not work, after several attempts.

My UK friend rang the FTV number and tried to get it activated but the computer answer machine just took the card number and her telephone number and said please wait 5 hours.

My digibox may be a little old, it is a Grundig, Model 2.41, ver 4E0301 with the operating system 1.2S4Bq and the EPG is 3.1a.5.

Has anyone been able to resolve this problem before?
Thanks in advance for your help.

arkles

that error msg is normal for the last fortnight or so,
do not worry,
once card is activated it will dissapear,

before the channels come onto epg, they will be available under add channels for a few hours before u can see them in listings,

so if u go to add channels and enter 10906v 22.0 5/6 add UTV, when utv shows a picture,u will know that epg listings are on their way.

anyways u will need UTV added to other channels for ur grannie to watch Gerry Kelly friday nights

johnnyq

so relax and be patient

omathuna

Thanks Guys,
You are right, my stations came through yesterday while I was at work.

jez

On a slightly different tack, is it now accepted that the old FTV/ex Sky Sub cards will be eventually cut off later this year.

Anyone got the definitive answer on this ???

Thanks

watty

Has anyone ever had any definitive answer on anything to do with Sky?

I have only read rumours and supposition.

Allegedly they hope to have replaced all old SUBSCRIBER cards by summer and disable them.

Anyones guess what that means to an EX-Subscriber card.

It *could* (guessing) mean that after the summer you can't have a subscription reactivated without a new card (like ex-subs at the mo just phone and *Bing* it's on again Sky1 etc) getting sent. But it *might* not affect use of ex-sub cards as FTV cards. The two usages are different. Obvioulsly if they send a "kill" signal to old sub cards they won't work as FTV cards. Which seemingly they do for cards they have actually sent a replacement.

But I never heard of a replacement sent for an ex-sub card.

jabarrett35

My Ftv card was disable within 6 hours after I rang for a replacement 2v FTV card. I had said the old one had been damaged.Still waiting for the new one.