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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 18 August 2006 07:21 |
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News has just hit the wire that TiVo has won a permanent injunction against Echostar, and the judge has ordered that Echostar disbale all PVR functionality in all PVRs in the field within 30 days. As you may know, I'm a Bell ExpressVu subscriber in Canada. Bell's equipment is manufactured by Echostar. I called Bell this morning to see if Bell was affected by this lawsuit. The tech droid I got hadn't heard of the lawsuit. He was unable to find any corporate position on it, but told me not to worry. I'm still trying to get an official Bell position. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 18 August 2006 07:21 |
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 02 July 2006 20:50 |
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Yesterday, I talked about looking for a console port on the Bell ExpressVu 9200 (aka Dish 942) receiver. After completely disassembling the unit, I discovered a 5-pin pad on the motherboard labelled 'UART' located underneath the power supply. Interesting! I soldered a header plug and brought the cable outside the chassis. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 July 2006 20:50 |
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 02 July 2006 10:21 |
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Regular readers will remember my recent attemt to hold Bell accountable to the GPL. As a quick update, I've received a couple of telephone calls assuring me that they are working to get the code posted to their website. As of this writing, there's still nothing posted. Bell told me that they would be posting the same code that Dish released. I'm suspicious that this code isn't the latest version that Bell and Dish are using. To verify that, I'm going to have to look at the actual code installed inside the 9200. Bell certainly doesn't make it easy to get at the binaries. My first attemt involves looking for a serial console port. I'll leave my serial port adventures for another post, but during my explorations of the insides of the 9200, I discovered something very interesting! |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 July 2006 10:21 |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 02 June 2006 11:29 |
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As a followup to my recent posting about Bell violating the GPL, I received a followup call from Mark at Bell. He said that the issue had been sent up to their legal department, and the decision has been made to publish the GPL'd code on the Bell website. mark told me that it would be the same code as published on the Dish site, and that it should appear within a week. As soon as I spot it on the site, I'll post a link. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 02 June 2006 11:29 |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:14 |
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I had heard a rumor that the Bell 9200 PVR used a Linux kernel. I haven't been able to confirm that rumor. However, I have found confirmation that the Dish 942 is Linux based. I believe that the 942 and 9200 are basically the same hardware. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:14 |
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