vegetaleb
Ok!
So we have now the ''ichtirak'' for satellite cable in digital.
They are selling receivers for 120$ with no options at all (no HDMI,no USB...).
I have one of these receiver in the living room and I plan to bring another one for my room, I tried it in my room and it worked perfectly, now here's my question:
-Would any digital receiver for dish work with it? Because I have found receivers with HDMI for 90$ in Burj Hammoud and I don't want to feel dumb in paying 120$ for a ''invex'' brand that most probably is a junk brand from China and costed 20$ for the cable guy
jadz
there are recievers used for your dish on your roof, they dont work on the normal cable but yea any brand would work as long as its made for the cable satellite digital reciever. but some cable providers already got their channels encrypted and some other uses recievers that takes a smart card you'll need the smart card to unlock but some of them of course still dont have them encrypted :D. and conerning the HDMI receivers no one yet is sending full HD channels so theres no need for that reciever.
vegetaleb
This is pure mafia actions!!
They oblige you to buy 4x price for a shity receiver
jadz
i dont know if you got me wrong you can buy a reciever specialized for digital satellite it may work but depending on the security of your provider. i got an invex reciever and it worked on digital cable. my provider uses a reciever called platinium hes selling it for 90$ and takes a smart card but my invex doesnt take any smart card and i have like 60 open channels out of 170 detected
vegetaleb
From where did you buy the invex?
I think the receiver must be DVB compatible to work,it's close to the French TNT system.
At least you can have a receiver with smart card so you can hack blocked channels...
jadz
i heard any random card would unlock the channels but i havent tested that because my reciever doesnt take any card:<
vegetaleb
So logically any receiver from invex or platinium will work?
jadz
yep for me it's working, just make sure the one whos gonna sell u knows what ur mean and if you find any platinium reciever seller please let me know :D and wich price im not gonna pay 100$ if i can get it cheaper :p but to let ur reciever work you need to put the frequencies
vegetaleb
The guy in Burj Hammoud has Platinium receivers if I remember good and even with smard card slot :)
Somehow he told me he was not sure it will be compatible because some cable guys are adding their own protection in the receivers, dunno if he was right because apart the usual 0000 password I don't see how they could add protection for their network, could they register receivers?? I doubt it
vegetaleb
I finally found as expected that the ''invex'' brand is nothing but a fake brand Lebanese cable guys invented, the real brand is Chinese and it's called Enigma
http://www.o-digital.com/wholesale-products/2244/2249-1/Enigma-Cardless-CA-Digital-Cable-TV-Receiver-CDQQ-5119-144694.html
Needless to say they buy it 5x less than they sell it to people :(
Even for 100$ I will not let them steal me and find an alternative
jadz
how much he was selling the platinium recievers?
vegetaleb
It's a used one for 60$.
Another question: Some ''adult'' channels are listed but they don't work on the invex, they are all paid channels but all the others are too(Canal+...) so could it be a sort of parental lock that he can disable or it's a damn lebanese law that forbid any adult TV station?
I think it has a RS232 port so it can be controled by PC...
jadz
It has nothing to do with parental control, they are just locked that's why you have to buy the reciever of your provider iam facing the same problem half channels are blocked specially jazeerasports
jadz
Is your jazeera sports channels working?
vegetaleb
I got 13 adult chanels :)
But they are all italian bad quality (not Marc Dorcel style)
Image quality is surelly better than antenna but not as expected on my full HD TV.
So the software is ''Enigma'' DVB-C and I can upgrade it via RS232 cable but I couldn't find a website with this OS :(
jadz
@vegetaleb, do you have all the channels on digital unlocked? and wich reciever does your provider install? do you got any idea? my provider is installing the platinium but i have the invex as i mentioned above, but adults channels aren't working neither the jazeera sports bouquet. I need to know if theres any way i can unlock them
vegetaleb
Invex brand is not a real brand!
It's an invention of Lebanese mafia,those digital receivers are made in China for 20$, they just add the logo ''Invex'' on it to give it a name but in reality it's a ''no name'' chinese cheap product!
You should say to your provider to give you the extra channels,he can block them from his office ;)
You could try to make a full automatic channels search to see if you didn't catch them before
jadz
i have all the channels around 175~ including adults and jazeera sports but they are blocked :D however i got like 50% of those channels open like showtime network channels and more but iam interested in jazeera sports more than the adults:P, and i dont think my provider would accept to unlock my reciever just like this lol
fadedo
Hey guys just wondering where can I get a Invex or RAMSAT receiver or any other DVB-C receiver in Lebanon?
I know that its mentioned in Bourj hammoud but can you be specific please
thank you