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Originally Posted by CableBloke
Forget VideoGuard, It's an NDS company and we don't want to give them any more money. The best option VM could go for is PowerVU which was developed by Scientific Atlanta. All of the Scientific Atlanta boxes VM use already are PowerVU compatible with an OTA software update. PowerVU does not use a card as all key information is in the box. PowerVU has not been hacked and all VM has to do is simulcrypt PowerVU and Nagravision until all the old non Scientific Atlanta boxes break and have been replaced with Scientific Atlanta ones then switch off Nagravision thus knocking out all piracy. Job Done.
More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVu |
Not quite. PowerVu is not DVB compatible. So it can't be used for Simulcrypting.
Also PowerVu is used only for distribution to cable headends and such like, its not suitable for use as a 'to the home service'. Each IRD's Identity is held on a database, and enabled for each service. It would need a PowerVu system per service, or at best per transport stream. It wouldn't be suitable for distributing to around 2million STB's.