Hi.

There seem to be two blocked off slots on my Toppy, and then two slots 
forPCMCIA cards.
I'm a little confused. Having gone for the Setanta £1 for twomonths deal 
I've got nowhere to shove the card....:-(

Can anyone help here please?

Steve Olive wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> There seem to be two blocked off slots on my Toppy, and then two slots 
> forPCMCIA cards.
> I'm a little confused. Having gone for the Setanta £1 for twomonths deal 
> I've got nowhere to shove the card....:-(

You need a CAM from Setanta too,

http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9670


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On 27 Nov, 19:15, Steve Olive  wrote:
> Hi.
>
> There seem to be two blocked off slots on my Toppy, and then two slots
> forPCMCIA cards.
> I'm a little confused. Having gone for the Setanta £1 for twomonths deal> I've got nowhere to shove the card....:-(

As mentioned you need a CAM; Setanta will sell you one, and it just
fits in either of the Common Interface bays, which are the things that
look like PC card slots. Card goes in CAM, and you're ready to go.

The blocked off slots above are there because there are some cable and
satellite variations of the Toppy that do have built in decryption, in
different markets; I presume it keeps the mouldings simple for some
reason. The TF5800 has nothing behind those slots.

£30 seems expensive for the CAM. I'd have only watched a footy match or two.
Ah well.

Nigel Whitfield wrote:
> On 27 Nov, 19:15, Steve Olive  wrote:
>   
>> Hi.
>>
>> There seem to be two blocked off slots on my Toppy, and then two slots
>> forPCMCIA cards.
>> I'm a little confused. Having gone for the Setanta £1 for twomonths deal
>> I've got nowhere to shove the card....:-(
>>     
>
> As mentioned you need a CAM; Setanta will sell you one, and it just
> fits in either of the Common Interface bays, which are the things that
> look like PC card slots. Card goes in CAM, and you're ready to go.
>
> The blocked off slots above are there because there are some cable and
> satellite variations of the Toppy that do have built in decryption, in
> different markets; I presume it keeps the mouldings simple for some
> reason. The TF5800 has nothing behind those slots.
>

Nigel Whitfield wrote:

> The blocked off slots above are there because there are some
> cable and satellite variations of the Toppy that do have built
> in decryption, in different markets; I presume it keeps the
> mouldings simple for some reason. The TF5800 has nothing
> behind those slots.

Not only cable and satellite; there are also terrestrial variations with 
a built-in decryption support, such as the Finnish/Nordic TF 5100 PVRt 
[1] which has a smart card reader in one of those slots and supports 
Conax [2] out-of-the-box.

_____

 [1] <http://www.topfield.fi/p28010-tf_5100_pvr_hdmi.html>
 [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conax>

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On 29/11/2007, Steve Olive wrote in message
<474e71e0$0$21086$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>:
 
> £30 seems expensive for the CAM. I'd have only watched a footy match or
> two. Ah well.

You're paying for a subscription to the channel: they're trying to rope
you in for a whole year.  It doesn't suit viewers like you who have
specific 'target' programmes.

Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk

Result.

CAM from Setanta for £15 deliverd after a bit of haggling.

Jukka Aho wrote:
> Nigel Whitfield wrote:
>
>> The blocked off slots above are there because there are some
>> cable and satellite variations of the Toppy that do have built
>> in decryption, in different markets; I presume it keeps the
>> mouldings simple for some reason. The TF5800 has nothing
>> behind those slots.
>
> Not only cable and satellite; there are also terrestrial variations 
> with a built-in decryption support, such as the Finnish/Nordic TF 5100 
> PVRt [1] which has a smart card reader in one of those slots and 
> supports Conax [2] out-of-the-box.
>
> _____
>
> [1] <http://www.topfield.fi/p28010-tf_5100_pvr_hdmi.html>
> [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conax>
>