Daddie
August 16, 2006, 11:05am
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What about Dish network…
and it’s not for me
I have reg cable, and super duper cable modem (lol 35Mbit down, 5Mbit up)
Skurge
August 16, 2006, 11:23am
22
JayS:
“A guy I knew”, not me of course, used to do the DirectTV hack. I, I mean he, had a computer in the basement running 24/7/365 running as the emulator with a cat5 running to the sat receiver in the entertainment center. Other than the faint red glow coming from the emulator board you’d never know it wasn’t legit. The early version was dos based, written by a guy name PGM. That would run for months at a time without so much as a hiccup if you had a good bin file. Then they swapped cards and the new emulator was windows based. Moved to a 2k server and a program called Kryptonite, which again could run for months at a time. There were people who simply programmed the cards and stuck them right in the receiver, but generally those would go down once a week or so. The emulation thing really seemed like the way to go.
Then DTV decided to invent their own access card, instead of hiring out 3rd parties with questionable security to do it. My guess is they had one guy design it, and when he was done they killed him and destroyed all documentation about the card’s design. There has not been a hack for this card in the several years since it’s release.
Back when it worked, it was amazing. Nothing like flipping through all the PPV channels just like they were regular channels. No “do you want to buy” or anything, just channel up or down right through them all. In terms of reliablity it was almost as good as a paid subscription. Occasionally a patch would be needed, but for saving $100 a month and getting all the PPV you could watch it was worth it. “my friend” ran it for over 2 years with a total investment of about $300. You do the math.
I’ve heard you can still do it with Dish Network but never looked into it. I’m pretty sure I know someone here was doing the Dish Network thing.
my next door neighbor had this same setup for 2+ years also, i think he said it was under $300 all togather, actually he had a card programmer also lol
he still has all the stuff, just not hooked up anymore
JayS
August 16, 2006, 11:37am
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^ Same here. My friend left all the stuff in my attic hoping one day the hack would appear for the P5 card.
I’m not sure which DN receivers can be hacked exactly, but it definitely isn’t the new DishPro receivers. Its one or two of the old Legacy receivers. Which models exactly, I don’t know. I’ll try to find out.
C’mon howie, I thought you were making the big bucks now?
Tv is garbage anyway nowadays.
Pansat system…+1000 channels world wide TV. Have fun.
