On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > So what you need is an CAM with the right card (the one that Yes gave > you) to decrypt the stream. I've heared some unclear rumour that the Yes > STB has a propritery CAM by NDS, that is - you can't take the smarty > card and put it in a "regular" CAM and expect it to work but I'm not > sured I heared right or even undetrstood what I heared.
Actualy NDS is pretty open about this. Their cards contain both a smart card (memory for decryption keys) and a proprietary decoder chip. Therefore you cannot take their card and put it in a standard decoder, at best it will read the keys, but it won't be able to do anything with them. Nor can you put a regular card in a YES box. Again at best it would have keys, but no decoder. If you want the function it would be best to contact YES and NDS directly. They won't help you build a PVR, but if enough people ask for a decoder unit with a unencrypted video out and a control port, they might offer them to their customers. You might also consider writing to keneset. If Israel's copyright laws were changed to support paying customers having PVRs, instead of the current laws which support the "all CD/DVDs 10 NIS" shops that pop up near bus stations, we'd have PVRs. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: 972-544-608-069 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 I may be an old fart, but I'm a high-tech, up to date old fart. :-) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
