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    I found this website via Google about 5 years ago , maybe more , when someone suggested that the Jerrold Box I purchased at an Auction could be modified to receive Pay TV for Free.

    It seems someone somewhere worked out how to insert a Pic Chip with a Program that would do the job.

    I would like to know how them someone somewhere found out how to do that.
    Is there a website that a member knows that explains a little on how that information got into the public domain?

    And I would like to know , if I keep hold of the Foxtel Boxes I have accumulated , will someone somewhere one day find out how to do what they done with them Jerrolds?

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    Its a cable box, not satellite so I will move the thread to the cable forum.

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    And guess if I took the hard drive out of a dead Foxtel iq and placed it into my Computer , Windows prolly wouldn't be able to play any recordings that may be on it because it wouldn't recognise the format.
    But if I reformat it , will I be able to use it like a normal hard drive of 160 Gigs , or are they "SPECIAL"?

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    they are just normal hdd but as said need formatting. but at 160gigs is it worth it?

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    160 Gigs is helluva lot more than I have ever used or needed in the past.
    I currently have 80 Gigs and am using just over 10 of them.

    Prolly just slow me down having too big a Hard Drive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moeee View Post
    160 Gigs is helluva lot more than I have ever used or needed in the past.
    I currently have 80 Gigs and am using just over 10 of them.

    Prolly just slow me down having too big a Hard Drive.
    Moeeee. Come into the 21st century!!!

    I have over 15 Terabytes or storage and that's not enough!
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    Quote Originally Posted by moeee View Post
    I found this website via Google about 5 years ago , maybe more , when someone suggested that the Jerrold Box I purchased at an Auction could be modified to receive Pay TV for Free.

    It seems someone somewhere worked out how to insert a Pic Chip with a Program that would do the job.

    I would like to know how them someone somewhere found out how to do that.
    Is there a website that a member knows that explains a little on how that information got into the public domain?

    And I would like to know , if I keep hold of the Foxtel Boxes I have accumulated , will someone somewhere one day find out how to do what they done with them Jerrolds?
    They make good door stoppers these days......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chieflets View Post
    They make good door stoppers these days......

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    Bummer.
    I Can't even use it for that.
    Us Muslims live in tents.

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    Plasma coffee table legs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by moeee View Post
    Bummer.
    I Can't even use it for that.
    Us Muslims live in tents.
    Then use it as tent peg it weighs enough :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by moeee View Post
    Bummer.
    I Can't even use it for that.
    Us Muslims live in tents.
    Coffee table ?

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    what about a bath toy ? (make sure it's plugged in)

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    Quote Originally Posted by weirdo View Post
    what about a bath toy ? (make sure it's plugged in)
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    Quote Originally Posted by weirdo View Post
    what about a bath toy ? (make sure it's plugged in)
    You are a very very bad man weirdo. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by moeee View Post
    I found this website via Google about 5 years ago , maybe more , when someone suggested that the Jerrold Box I purchased at an Auction could be modified to receive Pay TV for Free.

    It seems someone somewhere worked out how to insert a Pic Chip with a Program that would do the job.

    I would like to know how them someone somewhere found out how to do that.
    Is there a website that a member knows that explains a little on how that information got into the public domain?

    And I would like to know , if I keep hold of the Foxtel Boxes I have accumulated , will someone somewhere one day find out how to do what they done with them Jerrolds?
    Good old times!

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