Viewsat IKS or Dongle box - ABA DSS

myz7 · May 14th, 2008

Has anyone heard about Viewsat releasing a box that will work with an extreme or other Viewsat STB's and have IKS for older Viewsats? If so, any idea of when and how much?

MYZ

antivirus6613 · May 14th, 2008

The new viewsat w/ IKS is around $200 and will be out in a few months. The IKS dongle's are speculated to come out in a few months as well.

**odonnelld** · May 14th, 2008

No one credible has ever made that statment! Just a bunch of rummers and people fall for it hook line and sinker. If VS were to be interducing ANY new boxes you would hear of it. No one releases a new stb as a suprise! First you'll see pictures, then mods start telling you then they release....There are a few spoke persons for VS, and can you find one of them talking about it???? NO!

antivirus6613 · May 14th, 2008

OMG I am sorry. It was in the FTA news and anouncments forum sometime ago so I thought it was credible. It is also on the fta-blog run by ABA.

**noocjr** · May 14th, 2008

Captiveworks,viewsat Units = Ethernet IKS on the way !
C&P

I have confirmation that Captiveworks, Captain and Viewsat will be offering the "Dongle" to their customers in order to completely thwart the up coming Nagr* 3 card swap.

D*sh/B*v will STILL be wide open even AFTER the card swap on almost all FTA which is compatible with this new device. The dongle is basically a cool little internet capable box that connects to your FTA (via serial or USB port) and allows it to download new FIRMWARE on the fly, keys, codes, weather forecasts, etc. It is 100% LEGAL and will convert your FTA box into an IKS box.

The dongle guarantees 100% up time and constantly flashing your set top box will be a thing of the past as most third party FIRMWARE will originate from Korea and be FLASHED directly onto you box when it becomes available.

What does all this mean? It means we can COMPLETELY ignore signal integrity at d*sh and focus more time on watching tv as we will never be down.

This is a MAJOR breakthrough folks. All your boxes WILL continue to work after the card swap

**odonnelld** · May 14th, 2008

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Originally Posted by antivirus6613

OMG I am sorry. It was in the FTA news and anouncments forum sometime ago so I thought it was credible. It is also on the fta-blog run by ABA.

VS has a home site, and on there site the latest is no talk of IKS at all...Do you realy think thell be selling a IKS box? Some peps just love to beleave everything they read on the internet, and this is no different. If and when they do, Im sure there will be alot of pomp and sercumstance of there grand release! LOL.....

**odonnelld** · May 14th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by noocjr

Captiveworks,viewsat Units = Ethernet IKS on the way !
C&P

I have confirmation that Captiveworks, Captain and Viewsat will be offering the "Dongle" to their customers in order to completely thwart the up coming Nagr* 3 card swap.

D*sh/B*v will STILL be wide open even AFTER the card swap on almost all FTA which is compatible with this new device. The dongle is basically a cool little internet capable box that connects to your FTA (via serial or USB port) and allows it to download new FIRMWARE on the fly, keys, codes, weather forecasts, etc. It is 100% LEGAL and will convert your FTA box into an IKS box.

The dongle guarantees 100% up time and constantly flashing your set top box will be a thing of the past as most third party FIRMWARE will originate from Korea and be FLASHED directly onto you box when it becomes available.

What does all this mean? It means we can COMPLETELY ignore signal integrity at d*sh and focus more time on watching tv as we will never be down.

This is a MAJOR breakthrough folks. All your boxes WILL continue to work after the card swap

If your familer with VS first there wont be some lam copy and past. Second they do have a few peps that represent them, nether of them have said a word!! Please dont go around beleaving silly C/P from some two bit site/or poster!

**restorerancient** · May 14th, 2008

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Originally Posted by odonnelld

No one credible has ever made that statment! Just a bunch of rummers and people fall for it hook line and sinker. If VS were to be interducing ANY new boxes you would hear of it. No one releases a new stb as a suprise! First you'll see pictures, then mods start telling you then they release....There are a few spoke persons for VS, and can you find one of them talking about it???? NO!

As a site helper a more correct responce would be.Nothing has been confirmed from any of the vs camp concerning an iks dongle for them.So far this news only appears to be a rumor as nothing can be confirmed.
This site is known as a friendly forum please help keep it this way.Thanks

**arboristman** · May 14th, 2008

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Originally Posted by restorerancient

As a site helper a more correct responce would be.Nothing has been confirmed from any of the vs camp concerning an iks dongle for them.So far this news only appears to be a rumor as nothing can be confirmed.
This site is known as a friendly forum please help keep it this way.Thanks

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**arboristman** · May 14th, 2008

viewsat does NOT have plans of running iks at this time,nor have they stated doing so in the future at this time.

antivirus6613 · May 14th, 2008

O sorry. Did not mean to mis lead the OP.

raen_rfm · May 15th, 2008

I think everyone is forgetting that the card swap is a two part process, getting the cards out and then switching off Nag2 and going Nag3 exclusively. There will be a large gap in time between those two steps or the providers risk ticking off a great number of their subs. The sky isn't falling just yet folks. I'm sure i