Areas receiving new cards

[mdt]

new cards

the only people who now whats happening 100% is the big wigs at vm and the the guys from kudelski. everything else is just speculation! dont worry about it untill the card comes through your letterbox.

[MonkeyAl]

Thats true, but like I say I know 100% on the areas I have said that it wont be happening anytime soon and the same for about 2/3rds have a min of 6 months.

[sakiblateef]

The following areas are due to go Nagra 3 at any point now.

Taken from Virgin Media forum.

Important: Have you swapped your TV smartcard yet?

last edited on 18/02/10, 05:52 PM

Virgin Media has started to send out new smartcards to its TV customers, currently we're sending them to customers in Watford, Seven Kings, Kirklees, Wessex-Poole and Ashford. The new smartcard is easy to swap with the old - find out how at Switching your Smart Card.

The new smartcard is important. It works differently to the old card, and uses newer technology which will form part of a range of exciting new digital TV services from 2010 and onwards, including more HD channels, new TV on demand features and of course we?re also working on integrating TiVo into our TV service too!

Customers in the Watford, Seven Kings, Kirklees, Wessex-Poole and Ashford should have already received their new cards (or will be recieving them soon) and it?s important your old card is swapped out as soon as possible. Over the next few days, in the regions listed, we?ll be turning off some of the older TV signals on our network so if you haven?t swapped the card yet, please do so as soon as you can to ensure an uninterrupted service.

If you are in the Watford, Seven Kings, Kirklees, Wessex-Poole or Ashford areas and think you need a new smartcard please head to Switching your Smart Card and check our frequently asked questions (FAQ).

If you?re not in one of the regions listed, don?t panic, everyone will be getting a new smartcard. We?ll be going around the country region by region as we upgrade our TV service, and we?ll be in touch by post when it?s your turn. In the meantime, don?t worry there won?t be any changes to your TV service until that time.

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*updated with new areas*

[sakiblateef]

New update from Wizmod forum

*Set to receive new cards = Assumption based on N3 stream being present

*Receiving new cards = Fact


*Note: info on this list is subject to change



Current areas on 3.7

- Aylesbury
- Barnsley
- Bedfordshire including Bedford Sandy, Biggleswade, Dunstable, Luton (Set to receive new cards)
- Bells Hill
- Bolton
- Bournemouth (Receiving new cards)
- Bradford (Set to receive new cards)
- Brighton
- Casltford (Set to receive new cards)
- Chesham
- Cheshire including Warrington, Widnes
- Chiltern Hills
- Cleethorpes
- Coventry (Set to receive new cards)
- Croxley Green
- Derbyshire (Set to receive new cards)
- Dorset including Poole (Receiving new cards)
- Dunbartonshire in Scotland
- Dundee in Scotland
- Durham
- East Anglia
- Essex including Harlow (Romford, Ilford, Rainham receiving new cards)
- Falkirk in Scotland
- Fife in Scotland
- Gateshead
- Glasgow in Scotland
- Grimsby (Set to receive new cards)
- Halifax (Set to receive new cards)
- Hampshire including Gosport, Aldershot, Farnborough
- Harrogate
- Hartlepool
- Hertfordshire including Stevenage, Hemel Hempstead, Bishops Stortford Watford, Rickmansworth, St Albans, (Hitchin, Letchworth, Ware, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, South Hertfordshire receiving new cards)
- High Wycombe
- Horley
- Huddersfield (Receiving new cards)
- Humberside
- Immingham
- Keighley (Set to receive new cards)
- Kent including (Swanley, Bexley, Ashford receiving new cards)
- Kirklees including Dewsbury, Batley (Receiving new cards)
- Lancashire including Chorley, Preston, Burnley, Nelson, Accrington, Colne, Blackburn
- Leeds
- Leicestershire (Set to receive new cards)
- Lincolnshire (Set to receive new cards as part of Nottingham headend)
- Liverpool
- London 41050 including Harrow (East London, South London, Seven Kings receiving new cards)
- Lothian in Scotland including Edinburgh city
- Manchester including Swinton, Salford, Stretford, Stockport, Wigan (Manchester set to receive new cards)
- Middlesbrough
- Middlesex including Staines
- Newcastle
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North & South Lanarkshire in Scotland
- North Shields
- Norwich (Set to receive new cards)
- Nottinghamshire (Set to receive new cards)
- Oldham
- Paisley in Scotland
- Peterborough
- Portsmouth (Receiving new cards)
- Reading
- Rotherham
- Rugby (Set to receive new cards)
- Scun'thorpe
- Sheffield
- Solent (Set to receive new cards)
- Southampton
- South Humberside (Set to receive new cards as part of Nottingham headend)
- South Shields
- South Tyneside
- St. Helens
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sunderland
- Surrey including Guildford, Woking, Frimley, Farnham, Camberley, Epsom
- Sussex including Crawley (Receiving new cards)
- Teesside
- Tonbridge including Tonbridge wells, Edenbridge, Lower Surrey (Set to receive new cards)
- Uddingston in Scotland
- Wednesbury in West Midlands (Receiving new cards)
- Wirral
- York


Areas switched over to Nagra 3

- Aylesbury
- Chesham
- Chiltern Hills
- Harrogate
- Leeds
- Rickmansworth
- St Albans
- Watford
- York

[unadkat]

Well the latest info that I have is that the following areas will not be going off in the foreseeable future (within the next 6 months).

Liverpool
Birmingham
Manchester (I know this has been posted differently elsewhere)
Hartlepool (expected to be same for Middlesbrough)

Areas may go to 3.7 but this doesnt mean that your area will be gone in a few weeks. We are looking at anything upto 12 months for total rollout

sorry dude but I think your source is providing you with the wrong info I would say

they wiped Leeds, harrogate, yorkshire and few other I would say... within a month... Once they receive that card... you will need to replace it within 24 hrs or watch a blank screen

So when it states up that that new cards are being sent out... believe it or not they are coming and soon to be hitting your letter box I would say.

Article from techwatch stated which was from VM and the CEO that by End of march or even many April all peeps who got a dodgy box will be seeing a Blank screen

according to that Article from ''sakiblateef'' well you cant say its not coming now. Sorry dude alot of people spread rumours of this and that and that it will last this amount of time and so on... Its all ''romours'' Official site (VM) have stated that new cards will arrive and will need to be changed if you want your viewing intact.

Once that software upgrade is done on the sub boxes to 3.7... they wil fill the posts man bag with and Envelope and a new smart card... and then they will be hitting peoples letter boxes like flies

6 months ??? you gotta be having a laugh dude

[trevor1969]

I agree all screens on the dodgy box will be blank by easter

[middlewingnut]

Poole area (which seems to use different settings to Bournemouth) got cards on February 18th.

[BlueBox]

Poole area (which seems to use different settings to Bournemouth) got cards on February 18th.

Also heard that Dover got there cards today

[iman]

A friend in Dartford got a new card last Thursday

[CHRISTOF]

can we not cancell easter this year

[Spange]

Does the new card mean an immediate loss of free channels? My dad is in West Lothian, Scotland. He has a message on channel 999 on his V box telling him smart cards are coming soon, so will he lose all free channels as soon as he inserts it? I don't have a lot of knowledge on the subject! Trying to get my head around Nagra 3.... Are the new cards Nagra 3???? Sorry if I sound like a dumbass!

[alexh]

Areas switched over to Nagra 3
- St Albans

Even though the subbed boxes have been updated to 3.7, Dreamboxes are reported to be still working in St. Albans

[BlueBox]

Even though the subbed boxes have been updated to 3.7, Dreamboxes are reported to be still working in St. Albans

are you getting all channels movies/sport/asian ect on your DB

[jonesm123]

Has any Telewest areas received new card yet, just seems like NTL and C/W to me?

[alexh]

are you getting all channels movies/sport/asian ect on your DB

People in St. Albans are reporting no interruption to any their services using a dreambox