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Nagra 3 Enabled FTA Equipment and the Pros and Cons of each!
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N3 is here, what box do i buy now?
Many people ask us our Advice on what the best FTA Receivers are to watch TV again since most Receivers are unable to get anything right now. We will below list our top recommendations as well as the Prices, and pros and cons of each one.
1) Sonicview 360 Premier/Elite/8000 HD with IHUB
In our opinion Sonicview has been the top brand for FTA Receivers for the last 2 years. We have messed around with ALLOT of FTA receivers during the course of the last 3 years. Sonicview has sexy looking units, the menu and picture quality is AMAZING, it beats most other receivers we have seen in the way the menus are setup, the guides go to almost a full week in advance. All of these Units are a full on PVR which means you can record what you watch to a USB Stick or a USB enabled Hardrive. Picture quality blows most SD receivers away.
More importantly, Sonicview has a VERY Active development team. During N2 a single Sonicview Fix would last 3 or 4 months, surviving through 7 to 12 ECMS and never miss a beat, this shows us that Sonicview is all about Quality and Performance.
Pros – USB loaded, PVRS (personal video recorder) great service and support, video tutorials, and probibly the best picture/menu design in all FTA Receivers
Cons - Their IKS technology is still in BETA, which means they are constantly doing server mantience, and releasing new files. They have grown in leaps and bounds in a very short time, and soon in the future, this will be THE IKS everyone should buy.
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Sonicview 360 Premier – is $109.00! through our site sponser (this is an amazing deal)
Sonicview 360 Elite – is $139.99 (this is a dual tuner PVR, also one of the best deals on the net)
Sonicview 8000 HD – is $329.99 (beats ebay in price!! I am getting one of these!)
IHUB Dongle – $99.00
if you buy both the receiver and the IHUB you save even further, usually $10.00 to $20.00 more
2) KBOX PRO with KHUB
KBOX for the last year has beat out Nfusion in every way to earn our number 2 spot for FTA Receivers with IKS. Not only do you get the Canadian and American chanels. During N2 KBOX was the most dominant IKS receiver. They went through their growing pains, but are able to get International channels, Canadian Channels and Amertican channels. The fixes are Few and Far between, so they beat out the Nfusion in terms of loading a fix in, and not having to load another one for at least a few months. The picture quality and Menus look really good. If you are into International channels, try this one!
Pros - Great picture quality, USB, PVR, International channels, and wide range of Canadian/American Channels
Cons – Went through some growing pains discontinuing the KBOX HEROES 1 and another, but did offer a sweet trade in program.
K-BOX Prodigy – $139.99 (our top pick, this is a must buy)
K-BOX Heroes Plus – $129.99 (second pick)
K-BOX K-HUB Adapter – $79.99
3) Nfusion
Nfusion was one of the first companies to offer an FTA Receiver that did not need a secondary adapter. From day one, they saw the future of IKS and ran with it, pioneering the internet servers they have the second best developed IKS solution next to KBOX. In our opinion, when Nfusion discontinued the NOVA that was a raw deal to LOTS of people that bought a NOVA, so Nfusion gets our Number 3 position. Nfusion also for the most part updates via serial cable, rather then USB, so its allot more inconvinent to update your boxes, because you physically have to move it and hook it up to your computer. Nfusion has allot of channels via IKS, but it suffers from a poorly made Graphical User Interface (GUI) and sub par picture quality. Still Nfusion is a good receiver, and takes our number 3 spot for N3 enabled FTA Receivers
Pros – PVRS, lots of channels, a pioneer in IKS, fast servers, hardly any freezing
Cons – Sub par picture quality, bad menu design, nova discontinued
Nfusion Phoenix – $199.99
Nfusion Solaris – $169.99
4) Conaxsat Nano 2 and Nano
Conaxsat is a newer brand to FTA, only out for the last two years. Since then, it has developed a very loyal following in the FTA Community. Like the Sonicview, its fixes lasted months, and survived TONS of ECMS before ever going down. Its picture quality is also truly great, beating out 75% of all Standard Def FTA Receivers. Its menu system is very intuitive. All of their receivers have built in PVRS which means you can record what you watch on TV, which is handy. The Nano is their new De-Facto Standard. The Conaxsat Nano 2, has built in ethernet, so you do not need to buy a secondary Dongle, much like the nfusion. We really recommend CNX, its prices are really low, and its a sweet receiver.
Cons – Its IKS technology is new, it doesnt have TONS of channels yet, a few hundred, it has been using I-LINKS servers though, which means they have ALL of the ADULT and ALL international channels running
PROS – Sweet picture quality, built in PVR, a good warranty program
Conaxsat Nano 2 – $179.99
Conaxsat Nano – $99.00
Conaxsat Dongle for Nano – $89.99
5) I-LINKS
This is the only receiver we are recommending that our site sponser does not carry at all! Technically this receiver is the most illegal receiver in North America, and is not even allowed to be sold! You must order it from Mexico or overseas! This being said, if you want Adult, and International channels, this is THE receiver to buy. Ilinks is a very new receiver that has come out in the last 6 months, since then, most spanish speaking people, and people living in Mexico, Central, South America have been buying this receiver in droves. People were saying this is the most dangerous receiver in FTA because it comes pre-loaded with the codes and fixes so it works as within 10 minutes of you setting it up, making it VERY user friendly. This receiver is NEXT to impossible to get, if you do get one, count yourself lucky
Pros – Adult, Internationals, Canadian, American, Amazonias, Telefonica, this is the be all end all receiver. Supported with FILES really well! Lots of extras and add-ons
Cons – Very Illegal, hard to find, hard to get!
Price – Anywhere from $150.00 to $400.00
We hope you enjoyed our total non biased information on THE n3 IKS Receivers you should buy if you want to get up and watch TV again. We recomment anything you buy, buy from our site sponser. Click on my signature link and get Free Shipping within the USA, free USB drives, and quality prices. We went with this affillite, because of the Crazy deals they offer, and they are very reliable.
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D!sh Adds 7 New HD Channels
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April 10, 2009
For many Dish Network customers today is really a “Good Friday” as last night they gained 7 new national HD channels.
The new channels launched were Spike HD, CMT HD, Comedy Central HD, MTV HD, VH1 HD, Nick HD ad BET HD. Also in a surprise move Dish Network also added popular teen network “The N” to their lineup. Perhaps now Dish Network will offer The N and the popular pre school channel Noggin as separate channels. (Updated – Dish Network added BET HD on Friday Afternoon)
And while many people are very happy with the additions to Dish Network there are some customers who are upset over the additions. It appears that a number of these new channels (Nick HD, MTV HD and VH1 HD) are not available to Dish Networks HD only “TurboHD” customers.
This is not the first time Dish Networks “TurboHD” customers were passed over for new HD. Earlier this year Dish launched Fox News HD and Fox Business HD and failed to make the Fox News channels available to their HD only customers.
The launch of these channels comes 8 days late as Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen announced on his March “Charlie Chat” that these channels were going to launch “by April 1st.”
And while the channels launched late many HD fans seemed quick to forgive the nations second largest satellite provider by reporting that HD shows such as South Park and TNA Wrestling looked great last night on Dish Network.
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Dish accused of violating do-not-call list
Posted by: | CommentsWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government and four states sued Dish Network Corp on Wednesday, accusing the satellite television provider of assisting its authorized dealers in calling consumers with recorded telemarketing messages.
The marketing calls were made to some consumers who signed up for the Federal Trade Commission’s national do-not-call registry to fend off unwanted sales pitches, the agency said.
“Because a few bad actors still don’t get it, we want to make it crystal clear. If you call consumers whose numbers are on the Do Not Call Registry, you’re breaking the law,” said Eileen Harrington, acting director of the FTC’s consumer protection unit.
Dish Network said the company obeyed the law and should not be held responsible for violations by independent retailers.
“An independent audit demonstrates that DISH Network is in compliance with ‘do-not-call’ laws, has proper controls in place, and is well within the safe-harbor provisions of the law,” the Englewood, Colorado-based company said in a statement.
“We also believe that the FTC is equating merely doing business with an independent retailer to ‘causing’ or ‘assisting and facilitating’ violations by that retailer,” Dish Network said. “We look forward to resolving these differences of opinion through the judicial process.”
The FTC said the lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Springfield, Illinois and was joined by state attorneys general from California, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina.
The federal lawsuit seeks to stop Dish from making the calls either directly or indirectly through its dealers, asks for unspecified civil penalties and asks that the company be required to enforce compliance with the do-not-call registry regulations. Two other related lawsuits were also filed against two of Dish Network’s authorized dealers, the agency said.
The FTC’s do-not-call registry became effective in 1995, allowing consumers to register their telephone numbers without charge. Telemarketers can access the registry via the Internet but are prohibited from calling the phone numbers.
Dish provides service to more than 13.7 million satellite television customers.
Federal Trade Commission v Dish Network, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, No. 09-03073.
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IKS Explained – Risky or Not? – You Decide
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There is lot of rumors going on if IKS is secured. Well in short it is – and then it is not. Just to give you a few points on security with IKS:
1) IKS runs on a centralized server that is a share point to servers which relay on this server. Your box is connecting too relays not the IKS Server.
2) IKS servers require UDP connection, not TCP. You can think of UDP as more secure, but the real difference is that UDP packets travel one way (request is sent from the receiver and then fullfilled by the server but there is no guarantee on data delivery of the packet from the server, meaning that the server drops the link with requestor as soon as it gets it – it may deliver it later on however). The relay – is really a relay in UDP sense – (requests can be made to one server but another server may fullfill it). Since there is no constant connection being open it is almost impossible to catch the very small (tidy) request and data travel from boxes to IKS.
3) IKS Servers accept only connections that have a receiver ID attached to the data package. No request from PC or other device can be made – this really gives much trouble in identifying what the content is of the IKS package or intercepting it. I am not sure if the package itself is being encrypted somehow – but it will be easy to do if it isn’t. With encrypted packages, even if someone intercepts it – that interception would become useless.
4) In order for the providers to hunt you down they will need to know what servers that nFusion boxes are connecting too. To find out, they will have to intercept the traffic from the centralized server which is located off-shore (but hard to do explained before). I could not locate the servers by looking at the routers access logs – I can only find the servers it is connecting too — and surprisingly I saw many different connections (rotating relays) — which gives me positive vibes about IKS.
5) All the providers can do is see that your connection is making some request for data that is being transfered from a server and has been identified as suspicious – but before they can even take any action upon it – the new server can be re-set and there you go, another round of finding it again will be needed. This is time consuming and very very tidious and an expensive task (not that the providers cant afford it). Even if the provider proves that the traffic from your internet connection is suspicious – they can not prove that it came from your requests and your receiver (they cant trace back anything beyond your router/modem).
6) “Dave” did go to after the small people on the first occasion of IKS (more then 10 years ago — ohhh yes do not be surprised IKS is nothing new — it has been used back in Dave days when a computer was needed that will serve already descrambled packages to the receiver using waffer boards or card emulators) – but “Dave” had to physically prove that this was happening from people trying this (hardware needed to make this function) – unlike today (no additional hardware is needed – so hard to tell if you are really doing anything wrong).
The final decision is always up to you to make. I do not want to sound encouraging or disapointing – use your own judgment – do lots of reading
IKS doesn’t mean you won’t go down, it just means that you can come back up much faster.
If your hooked up to the net with your nfusion and you come home and turn your box on it will tell you if there is any new updates and gives you the option to update your box with the click of the remote button.
If your watching TV on stand alone (emu ON) and it goes down you simply click menu + user settings + emu off and IKS will kick in when you exit to TV.
99.9% of the time its IKS all the way.
I don’t worry about anyone getting my IP address from the nfusion iks server as it does not collect anything other than an error log saying what failed.
Most have not noticed that IKS and Files are on 2 different servers and are ported to 1 that you are connected to.
That should be enough for people to guess there is more than 1 server at work here. I think last count there were 5 ported thru a chain across the web to 1 point of access. That point of access can be changed with a click of a button. So what if someone gets the main click boom somewhere else we go.
Anyone that wants to can easily run a proxy on your system and your bouncing around the world anyways.
Now to the whole sending keys things. The iks does not at anytime send keys to your box.(Its illegal) It does how ever send data to your box so your box knows what to do to get itself going. Kind of like A.I coding. No not any of the pyro team will explain that part for a good reason. Why give up a trade secret. I hope this helps some of you out with what your wanting to know
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