Strange advice on a Fleabay guide.

[wooper]

Hi all.

Was just messing around on Fleabay, like one does to countdown to 5 on the office clock, seeing whats what with Kryptviews, Starviews, electronic bits and bobs etc, when I came upon this guide, copy and paste below. I note its dated 16/11/08. Is he saying dont but cloned boxes or that Virgin are rolling out new encryption after xmas? And I know, have heard more Virgin scare stories than have had porrige oats.

Dont Waste your money on dbox 1, dbox 2 starview euro
ebay is flooded with these knock off cable boxes which can receive all of virgin medias services (theft of cable tv). there are clones, copys, cheap imatations that are rubbish and dont work or break after a while.

Dont get ripped off or scammed save your money, your buying a box that will work for a few mths max then your stuck with scrap, useless box.

Virgin are wise to the situation, ntl/telewest etc.. didnt bother but your in for a massive shock and out of pocket.

the new system is rolling out now as we speak, virgin have eliminated 3/4 of cloned modems on the network, encrypted files are now in place ready for the big switch over.

Be warned its gonna hit hard after xmas, dont waste your money on a box that wont work on virgin media.

they have succeeded in a few months what ntl/telewest couldnt do in 10 yrs.

(updated 16/11/08)

[caveman_nige]

Thats a new one... can't knock em for trying... I guess they just want to stop this hobby growing at the rate it seems to be.. There are so many places selling them now and the amount of noobs joining DK (and elsewhere obviously) and wanting to get started is surprising...

I guess I will just have to jack it from my neighbours feed instead if I sense them getting close.

[Cable Baron]

what did you type in on ebay to find this, i wouldn't mind having a look at it.

[ATYY]

hi just read this on the internet*deleted* the starview boxes or like the virgin boxes chipped ? cheers

[jooxs]

Thats old news look at the date. Selling in a public place is not too clever either don't you think

[jooxs]

hi just read this on the internet *deleted* are theres the starview boxes or like the virgin boxes chipped ? cheers

Thats old news look at the date. Selling in a public place is not too clever either don't you think

[thewizardofodds]

complete load of kack

[wooper]

I agree it's a load of old nad's, just had to chuckle when I saw it.

What happened with that 2 week sweep that had us all worried about 2 weeks ago????

[Donnie Darko]

They could stop it all tomorrow without a change of encryption regardless.

[yamar1]

if they did stop it tommorow,,,, well it was a good run!!!

[sha786]

I used to work for a manufacturer, they new what the score was and choose to ignore it, if they change the encryption to nagra 3, everyone on free for me box will have a blank screen.

[DW190]

I used to work for a manufacturer, they new what the score was and choose to ignore it, if they change the encryption to nagra 3, everyone on free for me box will have a blank screen.

As well as a lot of subscribers with aged boxes.

[dctyper]

it will cost loads to changed encryption and a long time, its not an over night thing


~~~~ em, there all ball bags any how!

[jayjayuk]

if free cable tv goes..... im off to sly

i wont be paying anymore for this rubbish

mind you wont the dm boxes be able to decrypt it???

arnt the tunners the same as the nthell boxes?

so as long as a cam as created we'll be ok??

i wonder why they keep changing the codes a lot recently?

[caveman_nige]

Well they were not kidding were they, but how they underestimate the cable community