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    Posting this as an aside to above comments to confirm that prices may drop
    There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Madness"



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    Quote Originally Posted by allover View Post
    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.

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Croady View Post
    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?

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    Neither. No foxtel cards work in third party receivers.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bpchia View Post
    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.

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    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.

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

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strada916 View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bpchia View Post
    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?

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evilbrian View Post
    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.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DB44 View Post
    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.

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    I think im gonna have a play with this problem this weekend with a few geeky hack freak buddies and see if we can come up with a solution around having to keep the cards in these crappy pox boxes!!
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    where have ur mates been for the last year?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanity View Post
    Yeah. We arent talking piracy here, just using your own paid for sub card in your own receiver. Nothing mind blowing their for them.
    No I am not talking piracy. Cos I too would like to use my own third party box as the Poxtel one is ok, but i want to take my recording on the move.

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    Hi, I would study about this countermesaure, but I need thecnical details, informations and logs, could anyone help me?thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by timb85 View Post
    Hi, I would study about this countermesaure, but I need thecnical details, informations and logs, could anyone help me?thanks
    Am I mad or are you 7 years late for the post?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr 672A View Post
    Am I mad or are you 7 years late for the post?
    Actually, the thread is closer to 8 years old... and pointless dragging it up again, particularly from someone not in Australia.

    Closed.

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