The 'DSTV-PVR Hax' thread

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » 23 Jul 2007, 10:35

Only nice thing with PVR is that you can record on a third channel...

If I had dstv (Only watch it at other peoples placed) I basically always watch boomerang, then I can record on another channel when someone else is watching a movie or whatever...

still wont pay so much money for DSTV... not worth it...

Sojourn · Post by **Sojourn** » 23 Jul 2007, 10:57

screw eula's - those are there for "guidance", it's like the "serving suggestion" on some food labels.

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Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 23 Jul 2007, 12:12

Hmmmmmmmm. Lets see. Do I care?-no.
Do I want to continue with this topic?-yes.
Should I post links to a modding website for DVR and PVR decoders to get thing back on topic? Hell yeah!

Here we are:
http://www.dvrplayground.com/
ooh and another
http://www.pvrweb.com
http://www.dstv.com/Gysmm/Forum/topicVi ... =22&Id=132
Heres the website/manufacturer of the OS the PVR uses http://www.opentv.com/

lancelot · Post by **lancelot** » 23 Jul 2007, 12:34

I am locking this for the moment, I have to go out for about three hours. Will sort it out when I get back, delete and so on.

Post by **Cameron_Losco** » 23 Jul 2007, 12:45

I've split the thread, those of you that want to discuss DSTV can go here http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... c&p=722447.

I'm going to respect lancelot's decision to lock the thread until he returns.

lancelot · Post by **lancelot** » 23 Jul 2007, 16:12

It seems as if Cameron has sorted this out, for which I thank him. So I will unlock!

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 23 Jul 2007, 16:41

Thankyou admin!
Sorry I was a bit rude but I do believe that a topic is a topic and there are spam parts of the forum for anyone who wants to go off topic.

I know this was a bit of a headache for admin so the rest of the post will be civil.

Anyway I think I'll try put a new HDD in my dads PVR and try record onto that.
I will report any findings.
regards

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 23 Jul 2007, 17:04

you guys may be interested to know (atleast when i last checked) our PVR's are made down here in sunny durban by UEC, and were designed spercifically for southafrica. IE they were not ported over from a similar thing in another country.

Ill have a look later and see if i can get the HDD out of mine...

EDIT:
UEC:http://www.uec.co.za/

Our PVR's : http://www.uec-technologies.com/uectech ... oducts.php

Altech UEC is consistently first to market with innovative products incorporating the very latest technologies and has secured a number of notable world firsts such as:

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1995 - DVB-compliant set-top box
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1996 - Interactive STB using OpenTV
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2001 - DOCSIS STB with OpenTV
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2002 - Dualview set-top box
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2003 - NDS XTV PVR
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2005 - Dualview PVR

World-Class Production Capabilities

Altech UEC’s dedicated STB production facility in South Africa utilises modern production technologies and employs the very latest ISO certified lean manufacturing methodologies.

Hope that helps.
Rob.

Mozz · Post by **Mozz** » 23 Jul 2007, 17:26

Thanks for that RobThePyro.

Check this out guys...

STORAGE
Hard drive

80 Gbyte minimum

I reckon its as easy as changing the hard drive?? The OpenTV OS is on the Flash rom, coz the Decoder still works when the Hard Drive breaks....

EDIT

but then..........................

-Partitioned hard drive, Operator vault and Subscriber access
-DES encryption secured HDD content

Post by **Anakha56** » 23 Jul 2007, 18:28

My apologies DJV I did not realise that DSTV allowed for making backups of what you have copied. And yes I was not thinking straight when I made that post

Thanks Naughty for pointing out the legalities

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 23 Jul 2007, 19:01

Anakha56 wrote:My apologies DJV I did not realise that DSTV allowed for making backups of what you have copied. And yes I was not thinking straight when I made that post

No problem

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 23 Jul 2007, 20:23

It's been done already

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 23 Jul 2007, 21:34

lol.....

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 24 Jul 2007, 12:26

Thanks guys-Thats what I was looking for.
Ace posts with confirmation that you can upgrade the PVR which is brilliant news.

Hope this thread helped any of you who fill your HDD to burst by the end of the week.

regards

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Jul 2007, 18:00

I thought YOU were gonna do it?

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 24 Jul 2007, 18:47

I want a guide, some one do it and write a guide!

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 24 Jul 2007, 18:52

You do it and do a guide

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 24 Jul 2007, 19:01

viceroy wrote:You do it and do a guide

Someone let me use their PVR and i'll do it. I'll even mod the PVR

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 24 Jul 2007, 22:47

LOL i would do it aswell, anyone got a PVR i can mod? lol. ill try convince my dad to let me mod his... hmmm i need cash for a HDD though.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 25 Jul 2007, 14:32

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:I thought YOU were gonna do it?

I want to but my dad has to buy the HDD-that and he's not sure it will work.
I told him that he should live a little and be able to watch more T.V. with a little risk.
He didn't laugh.
I will win though-I might do it with out his concent but I'll mod that PVR.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » 25 Jul 2007, 14:33

How old are you frozenfireside?

Just curious, thats all...

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 25 Jul 2007, 22:59

lol! im gonna do the same thing, my dads just gonna come home one day and there is gonna be a 250gb hdd in his PVR! LOL!!!! just gotta find cash for hdd... or i could put like a 40gb i hav lying around in lol....

naughty · Post by **naughty** » 26 Jul 2007, 07:52

or i could put like a 40gb i hav lying around in lol....

now wheres the sense in that

- since thats actually smaller than the one thats in there - which i think is a 160 gig (despite what the guy says in the other forum that its a maxtor 140gig - i think that some were 160gigs) - but partitioned so that the recording partition can handle 80 hours of recording time

if you just want to open something and kill the warranty - then do it so that the tinkering makes some sort of sense ie install a 500gb harddrive - thats useful - replacing a 140/160gig drive with a 40gb one just isnt any sense at all

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 26 Jul 2007, 11:28

naughty wrote:
or i could put like a 40gb i hav lying around in lol....
now wheres the sense in that - since thats actually smaller than the one thats in there - which i think is a 160 gig (despite what the guy says in the other forum that its a maxtor 140gig - i think that some were 160gigs) - but partitioned so that the recording partition can handle 80 hours of recording time

if you just want to open something and kill the warranty - then do it so that the tinkering makes some sort of sense ie install a 500gb harddrive - thats useful - replacing a 140/160gig drive with a 40gb one just isnt any sense at all

<Rant:=on>
Naughty where did you get your noob degree? Did your mom teach you? Did you think i was actually being serrious about ptting a 40gb hdd in a pvr? obviously you did since you did a huge post on that fact. I WAS BEING SARCASTIC RETARD. The HDD in a PVR is either 80gb or 160gb, I forget at the moment.

If you actually READ my post(somthing your mom obviously forgot to teach you how to do) i am keen to put a 250gb HDD in because its afordiable, 500GB is out of the question for just having more recording time on the pvr, i cant pay for that when im trying to save for WC for my rig.

Now go learn your english again and come back when you pass grade 2, i was only saying 40gb hdd because i have one. not because i was being serious about hacking the pvr with it.

(BTW Installing a new hdd in the pvr doesnt have to "makes some sort of sense" i could install a HDD smaller than the original just to prove the point it can be done/ use it to write a guide to help people with more resources do the same thing, or just to say i modded my PVR...)
</Rant:=off>

(sorry guys i am just so over noobs who come and spam a thread with useless information...(especcially when they state facts that have allready been discussed in the thread)

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 26 Jul 2007, 11:30

Rob...CHILL!

Naughty was being just as sarcastic as you...if you couldn't tell.

I also suggest you visit Maxxis's thread on calling people noobs...