Roach: The sat is not duplex! They can
send updates to your box ('cos they know its id) but there's no way that the sat can receive anything from your dish - think about the technology required for you to be able to tx to a sat....
Also, Sky do not use a freephone number - calls are charged at local rate and they are fairly frequent (but short) - it is (supposedly) just for pay-per-view billing, but the frequency of the calls leads one to suspect that they are indeed monitoring channel activity too.
[ 22 November 2001: Message edited by: sanjosebaz ]