Australian Media Center Community: Astrotoy7 - Viewing Profile - Australian Media Center Community

Foxtel/Austar have upped their secuirty measures quite significantly over the last 12 months following the apprehension of some of the gamma card distributors. These are some important facts to consider: *there is no way to get a *legit card* from foxtel. Sure, you can get a card that has foxy working, but it is far from legit! *due to the added security measures, deploying it in a dvbs context makes it more difficulty, due to box id checks etc. NDS hacks do exist, but they are hit and miss. At places like austech and dvbowners, you will get an idea of how precarious it really is. my recommendations are these: *With a legit sub/box, Do the analogue cap method if you want stress free, epg supported in mce and free acces to all your recordings *Try selectv, they'll happily sell you a card. Of course, channels are comparativly limited. Depends on what you watch of course... No nds to worry about. Just irdeto. You can get this up and running in vmc or dvbviewer etc with a compatible tuner. Hauppauge now sell the TVpack happy DVBS tuners with addon CI module via USB. >>this way you'll still have full access to your recordings *Get an expensive set of kit, get an elusive(and expensive) gamma card, fiddle with settings to get it going. EPG wont work properly, box ID checks will freeze your system... it just isnt worth it in my opinion. AT least with the analogue cap method, you know THOUSANDS of people use it every day, with great guide support via epgstream/oztivo. I know it sucks, but those pricks at foxtel/austar are determined to make as much money as possible, and restrict any freedom of access to recordings even on their own pvrs. Even with the dvbs improvements in W7, until the companies co-operate, theres no point in assuming we will have foxtel in mce support. These changes are designed fort Euro/Asian/US users, where cabel companies etc are in open partnership with MS, not flogging their own pvrs like foxtel/austar here! hope that clears things up a bit. astro