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Originally Posted by Talisman  ...... Did a scan and it found 122 tv channels which is a marked improvement on the previous 72 only. According to the MediaPortal Configuration all of the channels are encrypted (Red icon) yet when I open up Media Portal and go to My TV I can view some of the channels (From memory: The various flavours of EuroNews, British EuroSport, Setanta Ireland, Bubble Hits, City Channel, Channel Six, TV3, Discovery Channel, Discovery Knowledge). |
Many channels are soft encrypted. That basically means that they are marked as being encrypted but dont actually have an encryption algorithm applied to the video/audio streams. Being marked as encrypted though, allows the CAM on a normal digibox to still maintain control of the program so, for instance, the program could be denied if the correct tier is not present on the card. There is no physical reason why the box cant actually display the channel, it simply recognises that its not supposed to do so (hence the name - soft encryption).
Things like dboxes/dreamboxes etc tend to ignore the encryption flag and will always try to display a picture if they possibly can.