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You cant get smartcards IN South Africa (due to ICASA and their toy-throwing).. but they can be orgranised by other means.
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Do people hack DSTV decoders?
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Black Earth Satellite is running.. (PAS 7/10)
Canal Parabole (Eutelsat W2 Satellite)
Canal+ (Eutelsat W2 Satellite)
You cant get smartcards IN South Africa (due to ICASA and their toy-throwing).. but they can be orgranised by other means.
The Decoder LOCKS to the card... the card DOESNT lock to the decoder.
rhinosaurusrex
Well-Known Member
duh....... u missed quite a couple of other services if u referring to that, like gtv,mytv,NDTV(c-band)tensports(c-band)neosports and the list goes on....it does not matterwhat else u can receive, its about what subs can u buy here in SA??? NADA!! ja, due to icasa we all know....
untill the so called competition starts here in SA, we basically left with ONLY dstv.....
Black earth satellite??? hmmm, tell more....
Skeptik
Banned
According to Multichoice, you cannot use their latest decoder "as a second decoder in a holiday home". "You have to take the decoder with you as well".
That implies that the two are locked together. Apart from use in a 3rd party decoder of course.
How? DSTV is a one way service???
gregmcc
Honorary Master
Sounds more like a scare tactic. The decoder only receives signals - it doesnt transmit them.
Even if they could 'see' your decoder how would that help them track you down?
Smart card number > account number > home address ?
I imagine if they could "see" your decoder it would only make sense for them to be able to "see" the smart card number...
If it was a fake smart card the number would be meaningless though.
wcoetzee
Expert Member
Can you still buy Mnet Decoders? Thus analog signal or is everything digital now? And if you can you should be able to still decrypt Mnet signal?
Anyone still have that decrypting software around? Would be interesting to play around with it..
Anyone still have that decrypting software around? Would be interesting to play around with it..
mercurial
MyBB Legend
This issue was resolved months ago in the previous pages. Read them for clarity.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
8 till 5 is 9 hours. How many hours does the average person watch at night at home? 2 or 3 maybe.
It is actually BETTER to have it at work for the 9 hours, especially if your job involves being bored most of the day.
Turiko
Banned
People don't want to go to jail, so therefore it is not "lying around"
lilGr
Expert Member
Cant chip ps3 Yet.
ObeyTheDiode
Well-Known Member
Anyone still have that decrypting software around? Would be interesting to play around with it..
Yip - I've had this program called CCRYPT (~2.6MB) for some time but never had the opportunity to test it 'cause I don't have a TV tuner in my PC.
I did some research on it though (if it worked I would invest in a TV tuner..). It was actually developed for some or other Dutch pay-tv channel. There were several people testing it locally (I think on techie.co.za forums). The problem was that mnet also encrypts its audio - unlike the Dutch channel - so you supposedly can get the mnet video decrypted but you don't have any sound.
ld13
Honorary Master
Anyone still have that decrypting software around? Would be interesting to play around with it..
I have/had it but...
Yea, I was told that you could see everything but that the sound would be missing...also had no way of testing it as I did not have a TV card.
Turiko
Banned
An appropriately placed wire link will effect same in the older M-NET decoders. The sound is encrypted. And that's all I am going to say!
Morgoth
Executive Member
seen this myself, and yes it can be done it works like this and multi choose themselves are the real sharks in here
about 90% of your DSTV channel is unscrambled according to law you may pick them up freely from any satalite on your house, like the dutch news for example, some other channels like mnet are scrambled channels they may not be picked up without permission ( dstv card) now the decoder itself isn't being hacked by the sender in front of your satellite is, there are 4 satellites sending the unscrambled signals multichoise send them all to the EU satellite afaik and from there on to your decoder, now if you have 4 DSTV satellites with 4 different senders on your house then you can basically have free DSTV.
about 90% of your DSTV channel is unscrambled according to law you may pick them up freely from any satalite on your house, like the dutch news for example, some other channels like mnet are scrambled channels they may not be picked up without permission ( dstv card) now the decoder itself isn't being hacked by the sender in front of your satellite is, there are 4 satellites sending the unscrambled signals multichoise send them all to the EU satellite afaik and from there on to your decoder, now if you have 4 DSTV satellites with 4 different senders on your house then you can basically have free DSTV.
genetic
Honorary Master
A friend of mine has free DSTV. Apparently, the guy that installed it for him flashed some software onto the decoder and gave him a new smart card.
The only problem he says, however, is that every few months, new software has to be installed and a new smart card inserted.
The only problem he says, however, is that every few months, new software has to be installed and a new smart card inserted.
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