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Posted on September 1, 2008 by Colette Stenson | Posted under Satellite TV
Satellite Descramblers - What They are About
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How do satellite descramblers work? To answer this question, it helps to know what it is that satellite television companies do to protect themselves. When most people hear about descramblers for satellite programming they automatically think of the illegal kind. The truth is, however, that the box that you rent from the satellite company in order to watch their programming is in itself a descrambler. You can have the satellite dish all set up outside of your home and the box in place and all hooked up, but without the codes that the satellite company uses with the box and remote control, you wouldnt be able to see a picture. This is why you can turn the channel to a premium one that you are not paying for and all you will see is a scrambled signal. If you started paying for that channel, the satellite company would code a signal for the box and voilathe signal is descrambled. How the illegal kind of satellite descramblers work is that they descramble all the signals for all of the channels without the permission or the knowledge of the satellite company. These illegal descramblers usually cost people a one time charge of a few hundred dollars. They are hooked up along with the satellite system and all channels that would normally be scrambled if not paid for become unscrambled. Satellite companies have been dealing with this problem for a long time. It is illegal to use satellite descramblers that have not been issued by the satellite television company itself. If a satellite company finds out about someone using an illegal descrambler, they can and will press legal charges against the person. The problem is that they have a difficult time finding out who the people are that have the illegal descramblers. One of the ways that they fight illegal satellite descramblers is by simply working on making their transmissions more difficult to descramble, hopefully rendering the illegal descramblers obsolete. Fortunately, satellite companies do have the means and the money to eventually stop the illegal descrambling problem. About The Author: Colette is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit - www.articleclick.com |
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