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..
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Apr 5, 2006
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24 Comments, add your own...
1. A | April 5th, 2006 at 10:54 am
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.
2. Pearls | April 5th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Yes, I heard about it & I know how much it costs.
3. Rami | April 5th, 2006 at 11:05 am
It has more than one name. Starbox, VisionNet, Magic XP and Cobra.
4. The Stallion | April 5th, 2006 at 11:19 am
I’ve heard of something similar to this called Patriot but I’m not sure how it works!
5. Purgatory72 | April 5th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Yah you can get it from bahrain as one guy said
6. Guitarzzz | April 5th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Really cool! I want it! :P
7. Yazeed | April 5th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
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
8. fadibou | April 5th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
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.
9. Fatality | April 5th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Where can I get my hands on this box ?
10. Yazeed | April 5th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
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
11. gabrielf | April 5th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
hey mark is it true that for the first time women can vote in koweit?should post something on that…
12. Mark | April 5th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
i dont know anything about that. i thought woman could vote from last year or something..
13. Mo Hat | April 5th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Women can vote from last year, but today a female minister or something was voted in.
14. gabrielf | April 5th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
ow kewl
15. holla | April 5th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
hmm shit i think i need to get this.
16. mooodi | April 5th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
i’ve got one, *grin* cost ~90 KD, but nothing special, runs its own ugly firmware.
17. holla | April 5th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
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
18. mooodi | April 6th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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.
19. bikeshed | May 11th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
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.
20. Bla | July 17th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Can tell a site from where we can get the codes
21. Bla | July 17th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Can you tell a site from where we can get the codes?
22. Basel Hamwi | August 10th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
if u want to pay just send me email hamwibasel@yahoo.com
23. emad | December 16th, 2006 at 12:09 am
i need this
24. Amin | May 21st, 2007 at 9:49 am
Any one have information about the software used for these receivers
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