Comments on: Trick to View Pay TV without Paying

By: jack danields

jack danields — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:34:26 +0000

ok I use to do this all the time learning from putting together the tv networks in retail stores in the U.S.A. On most of those tv’s there is a phone jack that plugs in from the decoder box into the tv. That needs to be unplugged because the system will still pick up your tv. #2 most tv’s are philips which requires a green remote yes it is green it is the industrial universal remote because the tvs are industrial tv’s. You can just use a vcr or a tuner box that can be found at radio shack cable from wall to vcr/tuner box to tv and put the tv on channel 3 and use the box to change the channel. Most hotels have a little black sleve to stop u from taking off the cable a small flat head can fit in a rotate it off. Now if done correctly once any one in the hotel orders a movie it will play in the system and u will be able to pick it up channels 40-60 in most hotel so just keep checking and it should be on one of those channels. Maxsisprime@googlemail.com

By: tomatuyukota

tomatuyukota — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:18:23 +0000

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By: deivi

deivi — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:30:48 +0000

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By: deivi

deivi — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:28:40 +0000

qui ero de codificar mi tv tuner qui en me da un codel si ahy? tecgo ete pero es medio com plicao ccd-xp 32

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:21:28 +0000

Your a dumb ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gringo

Gringo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:09:45 +0000

Will try it out. Does anybody know how to hack home enterteinment box so I could view pay chanels?

By: jkbowman

jkbowman — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:28:41 +0000

Can’t wait to try this out. – Thanks!

By: PayTV-Kanäle im Hotel kostenlos sehen? » Travelblogger

PayTV-Kanäle im Hotel kostenlos sehen? » Travelblogger — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:12:57 +0000

[...] kostenpflichtige Kanäle, z.B. mit Erotik oder Spielfilmen, zur Verfügung. My Digital Life zeigt einen einfachen Weg auf, wie auch ohne Bezahlung auf diese Kanäle zugegriffen werden kann: The trick here is if you [...]

By: myhp

myhp — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:30:13 +0000

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!

By: lord death 202

lord death 202 — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:51:54 +0000

huh?

By: nightthief

nightthief — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:34:21 +0000

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.