12-08-2012, 01:35 PM
(12-08-2012, 12:29 PM)ed731pdh Wrote: I also remember the hype 15 plus years ago when the PICs first came out. I have a PIC programmer sitting here on the shelf, collecting dust, doing nothing along with a bundle of 16C64 chips.
That is a blast from the past, years ago I used to program Pic 16C84 wafer cards to enable me to watch the Viasat channels at 5°E.
intended for the Scandinavian countries, 90% of the programming was in English, with foreign subtitles, easily receivable over here.
at the time I had a 1 meter motorized dish, with a churchill D2mac decoder connected to a pace satellite receiver (cannot remember the model no)
and when the encryption keys changed, It was as simple as calling a premium rate no, sometimes the new keys were even obtained before a change, the card could simply be updated by the Churchill box via the remote, no need for a programmer or computer, good job really, as I did not
own either at the time.
You simply tuned the receiver to the encoded channel, and entered the key into the decoder in hex ie: 8F C6 0F 2C 59 57 B3.
this way I obtained the three TV2 channels, filmnet, and TV1000, which used to show rather risky uncensored films after midnight.
funnily enough, official SKY decoder cards up to issue number seven could also be used, so they must have been PIC based, this also gave you
the option of the Adult channel for free, but had to be updated via a card programmer.
