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Originally Posted by sharphead
The problem is, the satellite providers are always scrambling the signal, so by the time you got it working, by next week it's scrambled all over again and you need someone to reprogram your card again, which gets expensive, so much so that unscrambling the signal becomes more expensive than just paying the provider monthly.
Or so I've heard...  |
If you use a free to air satellite it is as simple as going to a forum on the internet, downloading a zip file, unzipping it and transferring it to your receiver via a USB thumbdrive.
If you had to pay someone to do it, it would definitely be a pain in the ass, but most people can figure it out once they are shown how.
Sometimes they will change the signal twice in one week, other times it will go more than 2 months without needing to be updated.
I don't know anybody that messes with the actual cards anymore.