DSTV Explora 3A decoder

[Naks]

Item name: DSTV Explora 3A decoder
Age and condition: Bought in 2019, in good condition
Do you include packaging: Yes
Warranty: No
Reason for selling: Not needed anymore
Price: R1000?
Negotiable: Yes
Location: Stellenbosch
Shipping or collection: Collection, or will drop off in around CT for free

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

I can make you an offer, and this is not me taking the p1ss, but those I get from the e-waste at R100.
As I say, I am dead serious- R150 best offer.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

@Frikkie check die ou het iptv gekry

 

[Foxhound5366]

I can make you an offer, and this is not me taking the p1ss, but those I get from the e-waste at R100.
As I say, I am dead serious- R150 best offer.

Yeah but presumably Naks will help change ownership into your name, which eWaste absolutely won't. So the difference is working vs junk, isn't it?

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Yeah but presumably Naks will help change ownership into your name, which eWaste absolutely won't. So the difference is working vs junk, isn't it?

The ones that come into the e-waste are working my brah.
Change of ownership doesn't apply as I mentioned, it gets stripped for spares.

 

[Binary_Bark]

R1000 for DSTV crap....

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Also, one other thing, it's a STB, not a vehicle. Only if you intend to subscribe using that second hand decoder does change of ownership need to take place. In all other cases, it's regular consumer electronics

 

[Foxhound5366]

Also, one other thing, it's a STB, not a vehicle. Only if you intend to subscribe using that second hand decoder does change of ownership need to take place. In all other cases, it's regular consumer electronics

What do you do with a DSTV STB that doesn't require a subscription?

 

[HAL 9000]

What do you do with a DSTV STB that doesn't require a subscription?

Dismantle it for spares to keep other units operational, perhaps?...

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

What do you do with a DSTV STB that doesn't require a subscription?

When they come into the e-waste depot, they are processed as follows:
1. Opened up
2. HDD removed, and put in the queue for testing.
3. If HDD = OK, sold to interested parties i.e. me and a few others
4. Main PCB is either sold to people like me for the display, heatsink, and other bits and bobs
5. Plastic is shredded into pellets to be recycled
6. Unwanted PCB are shredded as scrap metal

Point 4. Some of the newer ones have SDR DRAM and DDR2 DRAM chips which are salvaged (because DRAM is more expensive than a Mercedes now). The flash memories are also recovered for use in projects and to repair other things. The newer "made in Ching-chong-cha" decoders are very much open in terms of design... all of it's commodity parts. If I could get the toolchain, I'd run Linux on it