daveh75:
Now max,with regard to Dreamboxes or any other linux based receiver for that matter.
Out of the box running standard software,all they are is a FTA/non platform specific satellite receiver, which means all you can receive is either FTA channels or with a legally obtained veiwing card/subscription, pay tv channels.
Plus with other available legal software, you can stream from it to your pc, record over a LAN to any HDD on your network, remotely control it from anywhere either from a pc or with an iphone app, use it a media player etc etc, the list is endless.
But if you use it to watch paytv services for free, by either using hex/key files or card sharing then that is illegal/theft of service.
Which was my original point.
oh , thanks for clearing that up daveh , as i said to andrew , i must have a word with my friend who told me about the dreambox , i thought it was legal to get sky , he gets all sorts of weird and wonderful channels , god knows from where , he has a "hotbird" sattelite dish , and a dish lined up to astra , im not really up with all this tech myself ...