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14-05-2007
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My System: 60CM Sky dish, Thomson LNB, PACE DS430N and FS Lifetime Ultra + |
Hi, Ordered myself a Fortec Beta kit from work (Maplin)... Jsut curious, is this receiver patchable? I guess it is, as I *think* I've found compatible firmware on a site (the name escapes me..again!). What does the patch do? And does anyone have a list of channels from 2D available after patching? L | ||
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S  The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue |
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My System: 1200cc with 100,000,000,000 neurons and 100,000,000,000,000 connections | Not sure if you can patch it, but if you can I doubt it will make any difference to what you can receive from 2D which are either NDS/videoguard encrypted or FTA. EDIT...Too slow today... | ||
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14-05-2007
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| Believe it when I see it Admin.  Real name: Rolf Join Date: 01-05-1999 Location: Southern England
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Blog Entries: 5 My System: Pace Sky HD, DM7000s, CubeRevo 3000HDPVR, Transparent 80cm Dish, Moteck SG2100 DiseqC motor, lots of legacy gear. Meters: Satlook Digital NIT, Televes H45 Digital Spectrum analyser. | Installed a Beta the other week and it didn't work, the guy had to take it back for a replacement. Don't know if they are patchable. | ||
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14-05-2007
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My System: 60CM Sky dish, Thomson LNB, PACE DS430N and FS Lifetime Ultra + | Aha..aha aha aha..aha (remember the Da Da Da song?!), what other birds to look at then? It's mainly the BBC I'm after, which is only from 2D unless I'm wrong. | ||
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My System: 1200cc with 100,000,000,000 neurons and 100,000,000,000,000 connections | BBC is FTA so no need for any patch or card  | ||
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My System: 60CM Sky dish, Thomson LNB, PACE DS430N and FS Lifetime Ultra + | I know, sorry (brain off today!) But I'm just wondering to experiment...which channels (not necessarily on 2D) will the patch allow me to watch? And what does the patch do? | ||
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14-05-2007
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| cerca trova...  Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: East Anglia
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Triple Dragon with HDD/USB stick, Dreambox 8000, Humax HDCI2000, Echostar AD3000ip & SR8700, Aston Simba, RSD ODM300. Swedish Microwave 1.2 Motorised dish / Invacom C120 twin LNB driven by the AD3000. 3 other fixed dishes.  Fighting the evil 3 Dragons under the Don Quixote banner,Sir Llew persevered where others failed | This site has patches for the Alpha/Beta STB - _www.al7bar-soft1.com/ May be out of date, but, as with other Fortec patches, will presumably provide you with a code menu with which to update key$. Also on that site are tools to upload the patch to your box. Llew | ||
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14-05-2007
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My System: 28e, 19e, 13e, 30w | Llew, that site drops support of many boxes quite quickly. I've had a Lifetime Diamond and a couple of Ultimates and once anything other than a simple key change happens the box becomes next to useless (the only saving grace of these Fortecs IMHO is the "free" channels while they last) | ||
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15-05-2007
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| cerca trova... Join Date: 01-01-2000 Location: East Anglia
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Triple Dragon with HDD/USB stick, Dreambox 8000, Humax HDCI2000, Echostar AD3000ip & SR8700, Aston Simba, RSD ODM300. Swedish Microwave 1.2 Motorised dish / Invacom C120 twin LNB driven by the AD3000. 3 other fixed dishes. Fighting the evil 3 Dragons under the Don Quixote banner,Sir Llew persevered where others failed | I know, Skip. They were very good with updates earlier on when they first started up. I was able to keep my Ultra 5100 up to date regularly until key changes became more frequent. As far as I know, there wasn't any other site servicing patches for the box (other forums such as Yahoo just copied the AL7bar patches). Llew | ||
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