***News About The Captains*** - ABA DSS

**lonster** · September 25th, 2008

Okay guys, dont shoot the messenger.

This is a C/P from Cheap TC Coder.

"I'm Cheap TC coder, if you have a standalone bin, it came from me. If you have a dongle bin, it didn't come from me. I dont work for Captain, matter of fact Captain has issued threats on me, to get me to stop making bins for their boxes. They don't want their boxes used for piracy. Their market in US pales in comparison to their market in the middle east. I figured out an inject point to remove some features from the factory file and set up CAS function, compiled separately, and fix checksum and version info. If its a standalone bin, it was made by my hands. If you look, there are some captain 8000's with some changes made to try to prevent my bins from working, notably a wire attached to a diode running from the power supply to a point on the board, to change the boot point of the CPU... I bypassed that in software, and that was the delay in March, and April. Figuring out which units had the boot change in software was difficult.... Delays all have a reason, and the reason the releases are sometimes slow, is BECAUSE of the fact that Captain, Inc. is so hard pressed to stop their units from being flashed with third party software."

I did not post this in the rumor section as it came directly from the coder.
Form your own opinions and base your next purchase upon the opinions you have formed based upon the facts.

**jc7257** · September 25th, 2008

Thanks Lon, I know now why I don't have Captain STB. I also want plan on getting one after this news...

**lonster** · September 25th, 2008

I have been an advocate for Captain users, and have had some heated discussions with the powers that be on occasion. I refuse to be blatantly lied to and will not allow unsuspecting users to be taken advantage of.

Oh well. Just my opinion that I should keep the rest of to myself.

**Beefeater1** · September 25th, 2008

Sorry to hear that about captain support buddy. I guess we have all made a few purchases in this field that we wish we would not have. Part of testing i guess.

So do you think from the above statement the next stop is the door stop or......

**lonster** · September 25th, 2008

I think they are gonna try and keep some support coming to try to keep the dongle cash cow going but with the history, this is the nail in the coffin as far as Im concerned.

I bought my Nfusion to get through the dark times but since I found SV and CNX I will never look back.
@ least the box was cheap but for what I got out of it I always wished I never bought it. Buying the SV HD would have been a better idea.

Im not sure I even believe all of the statement from CTCC in the quote.lol

Deerbay · September 25th, 2008

Thanks for the very informative update on the Captains. Does this mean new ECM files will not be forthcoming or do we switch to another unit. I for one enjoy using the Captain as its easier to use and modify than other units.

Thanks again

**lonster** · September 25th, 2008

Well that is hard to say. Support has not been very forthcoming for stand alone bins as it is.

Only time will tell for sure.

I just want to stress that people make informed and educated decisions when buying a new box.