Rogers digital cable hacking

But does Rogers expect people who have a track record of not paying for their signals to pay for a Rogers subscription? Gupta said. The move comes amid a flurry of activity from makers of equipment designed to deliver TV signals for free. The newest is a black-market set-top box that allows free access to DISH Network and Bell ExpressVU signals that has alarmed both cable and direct-to-home companies as well.

The Blackbird made its first appearance in late February, and gained a reputation as being able to decrypt programming encoded with the Nagravision standard as well as receiving unencrypted C-band, Ku-band and DBS-band signals.

It joins another similar free-to-air device called the Silverbullet and the Silverbullet Enforcer, a pricier box that automatically finds and uses encryption keys. The Blackbird is unaffected by electronic signal anti-theft measures, and it comes with no conditional access card, such as the hacked HU card.

Cable and DTH companies say it cannot be disabled by current satellite company technology. One vendor on eBay, citing his name as "yourbuddybrown" and his location only as "southwestern Ontario," advertised the box as "the best [free-to-air]receiver in North America. Went home, fired it up, had to reset the box from the myrogers site and worked. I log in and can watch live TV. It uses your Internet so as long as you have unlimited Internet it shouldn't be a problem. Once in a while the guide will not load.

I have to log out and log back in. Sometimes I have to kill the app after logging out. Scroll down to find the OS. Only SARA boxes can take a new internal drive, but either will work with an external drive. Parts: available from several sources online; search froogle. For me, this was all that I had to do. I did however discover that the Windows Media player crashed every time I attempted to play one of these files. Nero 7 was also able to understand the video without trouble. I did read a bit on the web that said basically the signal is raw HDTV video that needs to be converted to standard Mpeg That about covers it.

Com for me. You must be logged in to post a comment. Bobsroom Dot Com. Here are some guidelines: Because the PVR will need to be close to a computer, you should also have a TV in the same room. Insure that the room you have your computer in has a cable jack or you can get a cable signal into the room, and into the Rogers box.

Make sure you have the Rogers PVR remote handy. If you have a TV tuner card on your computer, it makes things much easier if you pipe the video out from the PVR to the video in on your tv tuner card. My tests showed 34MB for a single minute of video. The software used to record the video cannot display the video. It does output in MPG format but your system may not be able to display it. Try using one of the viewers listed on this page, or possibly use G-Spot to find out what Codec you need. Other software may work in transcoding the video.

I also tried to import it into Ulead but it was not recognized.