The reason some FTA box makers have waited for so long, and other FTA box makers are still waiting is…they don’t wanna do IKS if there is even a small chance of a non IKS fix in the near future.

Why not? The old way of doing FTA was great for the box makers as far as raking in the dough. Take $29 worth of cheap Chinese components, shove them into a box, and charge Americans $200 for it. When it goes down, throw some coins at some coders for a fix.

Contrast that with buying the hardware for an IKS network. Buying the bandwidth. Running the IKS network 24/7 for…years. Paying people to run and maintain your IKS network. Paying for subscriber cards and all the tiers. I’m sure there are other expenditures I have not thought of.

An IKS network has got to be a big pain in the ass. It also increases the box makers cost per customer, which right now is…close to zip. I’m sure there is much hand wringing going on in Korea as they decide whether or not to commit assets to IKS.

All FTA boxes can be made to IKS. The question remains, why would they write firmware to do so on old models, when they could just sell you a new IKS box. That money you gave them for your old box is…gone. They spent it already.

A dongle for $100 is a pretty good deal. You could not get into Nag1 or Nag2 for $100. An NFusion SD box is…$100 in LA. I can get refurbished models for…$50. Nag3 is at worst, half the cost of Nag1 or Nag2. The entry fee for Nag3 is very reasonable considering how easy it is to get your cable bill to top $100 in a month’s time.

I personally refused to buy a VS for $200 at the inception of Nag2. Why? Couple of reasons, but mainly it was…no goddamn JTAG port. So I spent the first 92 days in the dark. Well, not really. I had the Rom102. But I mean FTA. I waited because I knew there would be a fix eventually. And there was. It might take about that amount of time for a non IKS fix to come out this time. Three months of darkness. Or IKS.

Or plastic. Yes, I said there would be no FTA hack until a plastic hack is realized. I now think…the plastic hack is realized. As of yesterday, by the way. If that is so, non IKS FTA is now on the clock.

We had the Rom101 plastic as a bridge device between the Rom10 and the Rom102. Right? Remember those cards? We were hacking the Rom101 BEFORE the Nag1 stream was turned off. But not the Rom102. That came after.

Right now, I am watching Tv with an S01 card. That card is the bridge device this time. The hack for plastic like the Rom206 is not in the public eye, but…there is rumor, and there is scuttlebutt, and there is some belief by people in the know that someone out there is watching Tv right now with the new plastic.

No plastic hack = no FTA hack. IF that is true, and it is, then if there IS a plastic hack = FTA is not very far behind.

Captive Works didn’t drop IKS because they couldn’t get it to work. It’s working now. It’s just that no one wanted it. There was no interest. Coolsat had the first Nag2 fix. It was IKS of the type where you shoved plastic into the card slot of your Coolsat box. That’s one small network. Yes, that worked too. No interest. Peeps whined, “We want a real hack,” so that is what they got.

All you fearful IKS haters–keep on whining. Whining is what provides the motive force in this hobby. It makes things happen. IF there are enough whiners, there reaches a point in which critical mass in achieved. Peeps begin to see…dollar signs. And that makes the world go round, don’t it?
c/p from BillBlack

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Wow that sound pretty good huh,,all we can do is hope and i'm sure they will find a fix for N3,,,,I mean look at the Sonicview Team been what 5 months and still purring with out any fixes,,sure been Nice!!!

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SV is selling the iHub and don't have fixes and the system ready for it yet.But I read there close to release.

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