Smacca Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 Austar CEO talks about MyStar, profit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M66ML8pZcs
DrP Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 That should read 'Austar CEO talks up the worth of his company in order to boost the price the mystery potential purchaser is likely to pay'.
jontesko Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 It's good to see Mystar has been delayed again, now August.
Keepleft Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Austar and another party have begun organising a press conference for May 1 in Sydney. The other party is Foxtel, and it will be to announce a purchase and subsequent subscriber transition. A quote from: http://www.knowfirst.net/index.php If so, could mean an eventual change in Austar encryption and perhaps that the Mystar will not eventuate. IQ anyone?:-)
DrP Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Until the 1st rolls around and we find Austar bouncing up and down on Foxtel's lap while calling it mummy, its just another rumour as far as I'm concerned. Remember knowitfirst (and posters on a certain forum) has predicted (repeatedly) that Austar was changing to NDS over the past few years. So by now, you'd imagine that all of Austar's boxes should have videoguard cards slotted into them (of course they don't). Time will tell.
ozbrit Posted April 24, 2007 Posted April 24, 2007 Hehe put your own spin on what John Porter had to say, sure sounds like sales spiel to me. If Foxtel buy out Austar (and that makes good business sense for them), I can't see them switching off irdeto for at least a couple of years. It takes time and money to re-issue boxes to existing subscribers.
Yell@Me (formerly AUSTAR) Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 Hehe put your own spin on what John Porter had to say, sure sounds like sales spiel to me.If Foxtel buy out Austar (and that makes good business sense for them), I can't see them switching off irdeto for at least a couple of years. It takes time and money to re-issue boxes to existing subscribers. I don't want to work for Foxtel!!!
whispa1970 Posted April 29, 2007 Posted April 29, 2007 I don't want to work for Foxtel!!! Me either! Couldn't see them spending that much money really, then spending more on the boxes, and cards, and encryption, and the money already spent on the Mystar????? Not good business sense. Anyway, who said it was Foxtel. It maybe another player? Keep Guessing people. Basically, No one has any idea!
AndrewWilliams Posted May 4, 2007 Posted May 4, 2007 I'm using Austar with a 2.06B CAM in my PC with a DVB-S card. Last year I had to update my CAM to a new firmware using a laptop - works fine now. The big problem I have with the PC is changing channels. It's painfully slow (about 10 seconds) and occasionally it doesn't change at all and results in a black screen. Does this sort of thing happen with the standalone units? My dad owns a Topfield 5000. Do all TF5000s do DVB-S and can accept CAMs ?? I've never looked at his to see if it has a slot.
davmel Posted May 5, 2007 Posted May 5, 2007 I'm using Austar with a 2.06B CAM in my PC with a DVB-S card. Last year I had to update my CAM to a new firmware using a laptop - works fine now.The big problem I have with the PC is changing channels. It's painfully slow (about 10 seconds) and occasionally it doesn't change at all and results in a black screen. Does this sort of thing happen with the standalone units? My dad owns a Topfield 5000. Do all TF5000s do DVB-S and can accept CAMs ?? I've never looked at his to see if it has a slot. What software are you using to view? I use MyTheatre with my card and channel changes are <2 sec (the same as an average set top box)
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