Thread: Foxtel changes affecting third party receivers

Originally Posted by allover

Posting this as an aside to above comments to confirm that prices may drop

A bit contradictory.

you can CONFIRM, prices MAY drop ?

Either they will or they wont.

Chaps, does anyone have any info on where this is at? Will a orange IQ card work in a third party box? Or, blue only?

Cheers
Croady.

Originally Posted by Croady

Chaps, does anyone have any info on where this is at? Will a orange IQ card work in a third party box? Or, blue only?

Cheers
Croady.

Neither. No foxtel cards work in third party receivers.

Is a solution being worked on to allow Foxtel cards to be used by a card reader connected to a HTPC with Oscam and a cable tuner?

This hasn't been able to be done for nearly a year now.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by bpchia

Is a solution being worked on to allow Foxtel cards to be used by a card reader connected to a HTPC with Oscam and a cable tuner?

This hasn't been able to be done for nearly a year now.

Thanks.

I have no doubt solutions are being worked on.... but there are no working solutions available that I know of.

And you can bet if there is one discovered, it will be countered by the pay TV providers anyway.

Even if there was a solution do you really think it will get posted in a public forum such as this?

The solution I was using until it was countered: phoenix card reader, DVB-S2 tuner card (I was on satellite at the time), OScam, TVsource...was posted in public forums (pcmediacenter.com.au) and probably here, right?

Is there any way to swap out the HDD in the IQHD for a larger capacity, I presume if it could be done would need something like copying over the data from the original +/- firmware flash?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Strada916

Even if there was a solution do you really think it will get posted in a public forum such as this?

Yeah. We arent talking piracy here, just using your own paid for sub card in your own receiver. Nothing mind blowing their for them.

Originally Posted by bpchia

Is there any way to swap out the HDD in the IQHD for a larger capacity, I presume if it could be done would need something like copying over the data from the original +/- firmware flash?

Thanks.

Would seriously doubt that it would work. I think the IQHD uses a specific Windows OS variant designed for those boxes only, and the way Uncle Rupert's minions think, I'd bet that it was coded in such a way that it wouldn't let you ghost the original OS files.

Originally Posted by DB44

I don't know but I suspect that it will be a normal filesystem, but with strong encryption. Ghosting it won't necessarily do you much good but it may be worth a try if it doesn't worry you breaching the terms of your agreement with Foxtel.

The process would be to clone the image to the new drive. Something like Partition Magic or Clonezilla may do the job. Then try to use the new drive. If it works with the cloned image you would then increase the size of the appropriate partition on the new drive, assuming of course, that the filesystem is of a type that supports this.. Be careful not to play with the original drive.

Ghosting it will give you an exact duplicate and as such the additional space will be wasted. I would think that unless you use similar drive model/vendors it won't use the drive, pretty easy to do from their point of view and they would be crazy not to in my opinion. They are all about screwing us for more cash

The only way you can increase the partition size is if it is in a known format, if not you are stuck.