Sky Issue 10

PROVIDER

BSkyB

SERVICE

Sky Multichannels

ENCRYPTION

NDS VideoCrypt

ARCHITECTURE

MCU + ASIC?

HACK STATUS

Phoenix/Battery

BROKEN SINCE

1996?

TIMELINE

ROLLOUT

September 1995?

SWITCHOVER

31 October 1995

REPLACED

February 1997?

END OF LIFE

20 April 1997

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Notes

Some cards in this set (and other sets) have the text “SKY VIEWING CARD (R)”, rather than the more common “SKY VIEWING CARD (S)”, the meaning of which is not immediately obvious, but is presumably useful in some fashion. This card (colnect.com) has the text “SKY VIEWING CARD (E)”, so there are likely to be more variants than are listed here. More research is required to establish the meaning of this. Perhaps a region identifier?

Possible dates of interest:
31 October 1995 – Sky Issue 10 renders Sky Issue 08 and Sky Issue 09 inoperable