Trick to View Pay TV without Paying
Have you ever imagine that you can view the Pay TV in hotel while you are away from home without paying a single cent for that? Here I will share the trick that I have been using while traveling in most of the countries. It works most of the time and I enjoyed watching some ‘special’ channels without paying extra.
Basically, the signals from Cable TV service provider will go through coaxial cable to the hotel room. These signals will actually pass through the decoder before being decoded and displayed on TV. In fact the Cable TV channels, which originally in VHF band will be encoded to a certain frequency in UHF band. And if you are the cable TV subscriber, your TV or VCR can tune to the specific frequency to watch the cable TV channels.
The trick here is if you can bypass the decoder, by any means of connecting the coaxial input from the wall directly to you TV, then you can use your TV remote control to scan through the VHF band and view most of the Cable TV channels without problem. These channels include adult channels and newly released movies that would cost you at least USD10 per view depending on the hotel location and rating. Cautious: Do remember to install back the cabling so that you can repeat this trick next and every time when you visit the hotel again.
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May 20th, 2007 15:34
This is not a new ‘trick.’ In fact, it isn’t even a ‘trick’ at all.
For as long as cable television has existed, you have always been able to hook the cable coax directly to the television. In fact, when cable tv was invented, there was no such thing as a converter box and the only way to use a cable signal was by connecting it directly to the television.
Back in the early 80’s, cable companies began to add more than just the 12 basic channels (2-13 VHF). This is where cable boxes came into play - they allowed you to tune the special frequecy cable-tv channels by downconverting them to channel 3 or 4 VHF.
It didn’t take long before televisions began to be sold with cable-tv tuners built into them. This eliminated the monthly fees for the boxes and allowed early premium channels to be tuned by everybody. I was doing this clear back in ‘84.
Cable companies responded by scrambling the premium and pay-per-view signals. For the most part, this scrambling was done through sync suppression, with the proper sync signals broadcast on a different frquency. As a result, everybody who tried tuning these channels directly got to hear what was going on, but had a mess of wavy lines and rolling pictures for the display.
While a few homebrew circuits were designed to allow people to tune these premium channels without needing a special descrambler box, this has remained pretty much unchanged over the years. On analog cable systems, premum channels and pay-per-view events are always scrambled. Without the cable company’s descrambler or a homebrew one, it is not possible to watch the channels.
To make matters worse, most cable companies across the globe have been switching to digital cable services. While most companies have retained analog cable for their customers who refuse to go digital, none of the premium channels are available on analog. Instead, you must use a digital decoder to decode these video streams and display them. There is no alternative to decoding digital video streams.
There are some hacks available to trick these digital video decoders into decodning channels they are not supposed to. Some of these hacks involve submitting special codes through the remotes which put the box in a ‘test mode’ wher all channels can be decrypted. Other hacks require changing a flash card or reflashing or replacing an access control chip within the box.
But, the concept that you can simply bypass the decoder box and watch premium content is assinine. That the author of this piece wants to perpetrate such a fraud on My Digital Life’s readers is pathetic.
May 20th, 2007 15:51
huh?
May 21st, 2007 09:30
Hi,
Thanks for your feedback and clarification. You got the point that the subscriber at home has almost no way to descramble the encrypted channels. The one that I mentioned here was at the hotel room APAC country. I guess the difference was the one at hotel room probably already have a central system or descramble box that does the descramble work. And the decoder in hotel room just did some control and monitoring, ex: billing per click on PAY TV button and etc. Once you bypass this box and do some tuning, you would be able to receive the PAY channels without the activity being billed into your hotel bill. Hope this is helpful!
May 21st, 2007 20:12
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May 22nd, 2007 19:28
Can’t wait to try this out. - Thanks!
February 20th, 2008 18:09
Will try it out. Does anybody know how to hack home enterteinment box so I could view pay chanels?
March 28th, 2008 15:21
Your a dumb ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 09:28
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May 30th, 2008 09:30
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June 24th, 2008 06:18
Que ortografía de mierda que tiene deivi.