Showtime and Orbits black box?
A few days ago a friend of mine was telling me about a new receiver that allows you to watch Orbit, Showtime and ART for free. Then yesterday I read an article in Campaign ME about how these companies are now worried this receiver will get popular and how they busted some guys selling it in Dubai. The way it works is the receiver connects online and downloads the latest codes the descramble the signals, its kinda like cables black box in the States. Anyone heard of this? I think the brand of the receiver is Starbox and sells for like KD100..
Apr 5, 2006
Yes I have, I saw it at my friend’s house the frist time soemthing like a year ago. It does connect online and they do get everything you mentioned. The quality was ok to me when i saw it.
Yes, I heard about it & I know how much it costs.
It has more than one name. Starbox, VisionNet, Magic XP and Cobra.
I’ve heard of something similar to this called Patriot but I’m not sure how it works!
Yah you can get it from bahrain as one guy said
Really cool! I want it! :P
the one i saw is named dreambox
its really impressive
runs on linux
has a hard disk
can be connected to a keyboard and stuff
u can find it online cause its very popular in europe
the guy i know who has it pays like 35kd a year to connect to this server where the reciver downloads encryption codes for the channels to unlock them
not good for watching sports
as ART change their encryption every 2 minutes!
when the codes change it takes about 1 minute to take effect with these recivers
I saw dreambox and starbox and both run over linux.
Starbox is cheaper and you can get it for 150-160 as for dreambox its around 200 kd.
They have access to almost 500 paid channels which include showtime, orbit and art, jazeera sports but doesnt work with ART sports as mentioned earlier.
I’ve heard some people sell from their houses as its illegal to sell it off the street.
Where can I get my hands on this box ?
go to the sattalite shops in hawally near the fire station and ask around
find a place called sahran, its really well known, and they will lead you to a guy who sells them, they guy is a dealer, and charges a lot to install it, i dont remember how much, as it was about a year and a half ago i think
hey mark is it true that for the first time women can vote in koweit?should post something on that…
i dont know anything about that. i thought woman could vote from last year or something..
Women can vote from last year, but today a female minister or something was voted in.
ow kewl
hmm shit i think i need to get this.
i’ve got one, *grin* cost ~90 KD, but nothing special, runs its own ugly firmware.
what is the installation like? do you have to like install hella more dishes for each service or what? also does it always have to be online? somebody with this start a thread about it with details ASAPP PLZ
i’ve had it for around 4 months, i dont quite get how it functions tho, its not connected to anything; i guess it has a designated download thingor; then again i dont know jack shit about this stuff.
planning to play around with it after exams are over.
I have the mutant box which runs on some russian linux programming. Certainly dodgy, but yazeed has it right. You need a DSL connection to download the hacks for the various channels from a server for which you pay a subscription fee to have access to. Basically, satellite heaven all the sports, porn, movies and TV shows you can humanly watch. The dreambox has a hard drive as well and can act like a satellite tivo. Once again, they are all dodgy since they are basically selling illegal satellite tv and the machine’s themselves are not very stable and crash often. The unit costs around 80 and the subscription 60 for the year.
Can tell a site from where we can get the codes
Can you tell a site from where we can get the codes?
if u want to pay just send me email hamwibasel@yahoo.com
i need this
Any one have information about the software used for these receivers