Urban Myth ''Sky TV from your Ford radio'' yeah right....!

[P4LERIDER]

Anyone from heard of this spate of thefts in South Wales over the weekend:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6168916.stm

can just imagine some chav idiot sat with his pile of worthless Ford radios trying to decode his Sky box...!

Sharpest tool in the box? I think not

[cyberglass]

Same down here in skem

They are nicking them for a chip inside which apparentlly with a little modification can decrypt the syk digital signal

A stall guy at the comp fair was selling sky boxes with all the channels for dirt cheap was chattin to a guy about where the chips come from and mentioned this.

[zephyrgirl]

Yeah,

Jeremy Vine was just on Radio 2 and was discussing this in his phone in.

One chap phoned in and proceeded to give detailed instructions on how to rewire your Sky box to receive encrypted channels.
Jezza got a tad worried and cut him short, because "we can't really go into this as it is an illegal procedure" or words to that effect!

He was just getting to the part where he was informing the nation which coloured wires went where!

But using Ford radios, for Chrissakes, I can barely get FM on the shitty factory set in my old Escort.

Jeremy Vine has just said that BSkyB has contacted the show with a statement that:
"There is a Ford car in America that can pick up Sky - but this is a radio station called Sky Radio. This may have been the cause of the rumours"


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I bloody wish.

[0ddball]

I don't know enough about it to have an opinion on whether it's true or not. But nobody from Ford, Sky or the media is going to admit it even if it's true so all the official don't mean much.