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<blockquote data-quote="Amnesiac" data-source="post: 7539">PowerVu is, as I understand it NOT DVB compliant. It is an MPEG2 variant, but uses different compression (&amp; I wish I could remember the detail of the article I read). It is a quirk that the PowerVu receivers can receive some DVB broadcasts.Also, the PowerVu used over Europe is primarily intended for US armed services personnel. Looking at the US military and Scientific Atlanta's web sites it seems that each customer has a unique encryption version in the reciever's firmware, and, the US Armed forces one is matched to the US military broadcasts (worldwide) - the box's expire after 2 years and each one is tracked by the US military.So... I'd guess you'd need to alter the firmware of the reciever to catch the different flavour of MPEG2 stream before it even hit the CAM - so perhaps a HUMAX or Nokia variant might surface which cloned a working reciever. Someone who knows more than I do (not difficult) might like to comment.A.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amnesiac, post: 7539"] PowerVu is, as I understand it NOT DVB compliant. It is an MPEG2 variant, but uses different compression (& I wish I could remember the detail of the article I read). It is a quirk that the PowerVu receivers can receive some DVB broadcasts. Also, the PowerVu used over Europe is primarily intended for US armed services personnel. Looking at the US military and Scientific Atlanta's web sites it seems that each customer has a unique encryption version in the reciever's firmware, and, the US Armed forces one is matched to the US military broadcasts (worldwide) - the box's expire after 2 years and each one is tracked by the US military. So... I'd guess you'd need to alter the firmware of the reciever to catch the different flavour of MPEG2 stream before it even hit the CAM - so perhaps a HUMAX or Nokia variant might surface which cloned a working reciever. Someone who knows more than I do (not difficult) might like to comment. A. [/QUOTE]

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