Jorsher

You have it a little wrong. FTA receivers are perfectly legal for receiving the Free To Air channels (shitty), but for the channels you want you will have to install software on the receiver to illegally decode them.

Inquisition

Gotcha. Is the software free/readily available? What kind of life do these receivers have? I remember back in the day with black boxes you'd buy one and then sometimes they'd last a long time and sometimes the cable would block the signal and you just spent $300 on a paper weight.

Jorsher

I haven't set one up personally, I just helped a friend find/setup info on his. Being that I live in an apartment and they require "professional installation" for satellite, and I can't exactly call dishnetwork/directv to come install my FTA setup, I have to wait til I get my own place.

The actual receiver should last years and years. The codes can be updated, so every now and then you might have some downtime, but my friend says it's rarely for longer than a few hours.

ariza034

wrong info some recivers tend to die quickly due to theri shitty support u buy a good reciver u will recive great supp and its not all the time the keys change sometimes they mess around with the encryption ex. two years ago when they switched from nagravision 1 to nagravision 2 there was some problems the recivers where down for coulpe of months