Hacking Bell TV PVR Satellite Receiver - More Free Channels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2023
- Today I take a look at this old Bell TV PVR receiver that has been out of service for over 3 years. The power cord was cut off and I found the internal Hard Drive had been disconnected too. After restoring power I was shocked to find that the Hard Drive worked and was much Harder then anyone could have ever imagined! We also discover many more new FREE channels! The 2400 baud dialup modem test was really crazy to hear too. The system was fully restored and became operational.
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The cutoff after "oh my god what is that??" is sending me to orbit 😂
As soon as I saw the hard drive unplugged I knew there was gonna be some "stuff" on it, someone was trying to hide it for sure
Yep. Hiding it from the wife and/or kids?
What?
@Tadders someone had recorded porn onto the hard drive, and unplugged the hard drive to hide it from someone like a wife or Children
Hard driving HD
You got to admit living out my anal fantasy is classic. This guy knows his stuff.
Surprised it didnt moan when you pluged the drive back in 😂
"I only gape for you". "I don't think the only thing here hard was the hard drive". LOL
Looks just like a Dish Network 722 from around 2009. FYI that is a dual receiver and can run two TV's independently. You will need a dish network RF remote(the little wafer on the bottom of the remote that has a green number 1 on it can be taken out and flipped over to a blue number 2- then program by going to System Info screen and pressing the record button on the TV2 remote [menu 6 - 1 - 3]) and a small antenna for the "remote antenna" port on the back of the receiver. The yellow coax port is to run to your second TV in another room- then you push the "mode" button on the front of the receiver and the yellow light should change from the one screen to two screens on the front of the receiver. Next set the second TV to either air channel 60 or cable channel 73 (defaults)(you may need to do a channel scan to pick it up) and you should now have two TV's on one box. You can make the remote antenna out of a piece of coax, just cut a 6" piece of coax and strip all the jacketing and dielectric off of the center conductor for about 4 inches or so and make sure there is no metal contacting it.
Yes it likely is a Bell rebranded 722 with dual tuner.
Yep, Bell uses the same Cable Boxes as Dish
The usb port on the front behind the side door was so you could view picture say from a camera or your pc. Last dish DVR we had, had one of those ports. just transfer your pictures to a jump drive and then plug that into that port.
Thanks, that makes sense as this receiver is from the era of multimedia convergence.
when you got excited that the modem sounds came on it made me smile :)
Always good when you upload. Excited for this one
Enjoy!
I'm most likely going to get a job doing VOIP so this stuff is sorta inline with my education; Now that I understand a thing or two, I'm inclined to grab one of these old boxes and try some experiments myself. I often see these boxes at estate sales, so I'm going to start assembling my kit. Thanks OP for bringing this to my attention.
Hah, a Dreambox.. Great hardware. Broadcom inside too.
Fascinating endeavours!
Indeed it is!
The dial up missed part of the handshake, did it not? I wonder if the process is different for different devices. Really neat!
It failed the handshake
@@redtrexmedia 🫱🚫🫲
LOL at the cut cords, reminds me of ship breaking where this was done for controlled ITAR inventory strip out for crush/demolition video taped, a lot of uncontrolled stuff like this would be pulled in the same fashion (one doesn't waste time trying to find the ends)
Was given a Sony DVD recorder with 250gb hard drive. The hard drive was loaded with porn recorded off Exxxtasy lol. Took a while to delete the movies one at at time.
I bet it did
This might be why the Hard Drive was disconnected and the power cord cut off. Someone was trying to hide what it really contained.
U can pull the hard drives out and hook it to ur pc as a 2nd and should be able to see the files and remove or copy from there
@@peterfairlie2296 i was thinking the same. 🤪
@@jionnigreco1969 Can you confirm that this would work? I'm very sure they would encrypt the drives to prevent this. It'll also be Linux that's for sure!
I see those adult channels, really bro "I gap for you" 😂
I'm surprised TH-cam didn't ban you for it 😅
Would be cool if you could copy those shows like moonshiners off of that hard drive but sadly everything is encrypted on these DVRs. The TV providers only want you to watch and not save.
I haven't heard that dial-up sound in a long time not counting a video I saw on dial-up internet like what the different tones mean.
This has gotta be the coolest youtube channel
Thank you! I'm just about to hit 20,000 subscribers !!
when visiting canada from England i saw my aunts old box like that one in 2013 and i so wanted to take it apart to see how much it was diffrent than a UK England SKYbox or standard Satellite box was
Nice drive there bro
Sometimes if you Hook up a ground wire to a device that didn't have one original could ruined the device if other devices connected to the ground could release unwanted power to the ground and could go to the device with a independent system could ruined it
Looks like an ATX power supply plug actually.
That receiver hold some secrets 😂
Nice video 😊
Thanks 😊
Bell is the Canadian Dish TV service
There are separate, or there used to be separated Bell satellites
I think now Bell uses Dish satellite network
Can't wait!
Glad you're here Lee !
@@peterfairlie2296Awesome to channel hop with you haha. Over the satellites!
Also theres a reason why they removed the SATA connector 😂
The Venus channel is more common in Latin America and we know what we are talking about.
Nice video
What is this RemoteMix 3?
Is this a pbx, does it support pulse dialing?
Or is it just audio to phone line interface?
Yes, it's an audio to phone line interface for TV news crews to use to patch sound back to the station, and or receive sound IFB. I just used it here as a phone line monitor.
I wonder if the hard disk can be cloned and flashed onto an SSD? I know you'd likely be limited to the stock size, but I wonder if there would be any benefit to performance?
Heh, "we're still getting a lot of really good channels here," referring to the adult entertainment stored on the hard drive.
Just subscribed 👍👍
Awesome thank you!
Too Hard for youtube. We got a dish but nobody using it a panel looks like next to electric I know where my wire into my room luckily right above it! Could I just skip the panel straight into house into PVR to watch tv ? Also can this upgrade to SSD?
Anything that comes through on a deauthorized receiver is sent in the clear and a standard fta receiver will receive it as well
Sorry but you are incorrect, the channels are indeed encrypted but some are being decrypted because they are in a free monthly preview mode. Some other channels like CTV and the Fireplace channel just seem to decrypt all of the time.
Why not just spoof an already registered sat dish receiver? Yes it's illegal and encrypted but you just the need the sat dishes lat and long settings and an already registered receiver from a cable distribution central in office.
I have worked with the RemoteMix 3. It's analog audio at best. No fancy modem in one of those I'm afraid.
You must work in news. Check this out: th-cam.com/video/1hBZjpVd194/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LMqoUiCdke6Mw5hO&t=97
We have the exact same pvr!
Do you still use it? Does it still work?
Very hard stuff on a hard drive.
Peter have you heard of or seen the nextcom r5000 cable box mod from back in the day ?
I remember the r5000. It was the direct competition to TiVo.
@@peterfairlie2296 well it would bypass drm and you could record cable signal directly to your PC from cable box. I had one uninstalled from them and still have it. Always wondered what pins and chip it was attached to on the cable box and how it worked
As a Québec City resident I got to ask you where you from ❤ since I noticed a lot of french canadian channels 😂
Bonjour mon ami. Je viens de Toronto
@@peterfairlie2296 Salut! Je suis content de parler à un francophone hors Québec :) bon succès j'aime beaucoup ta chaîne!
Thanks for the view under the hood. Do you think there may be a Linux core here amongst the Broadcom that could repurpose the box as a small computer ? Assuming kbd and net through the USB. Also curious what is its country of origin ? could not make out the label. Thanks.
This receiver is made by the US EchoStar Corporation and was assembled in Mexico. I think the Broadcom chipset is just too application specific to run as anything else. It is for sure a Linux embedded system.
@@peterfairlie2296hmm. They may use some Windows CE based solution instead. Maybe it's linux. Unless we crack the firmware open.
It's 100% Linux. The problem with and one of the big reasons why you don't want to use Windows as an OS for anything like this is the perpetual cost of licensing and the quantity of set top boxes.
@@peterfairlie2296 thanks for getting back. If anything like Bluray boxes, that often have wifi and eth - all tightly locked down. Landfill here we come.
@@peterfairlie2296 hmm. The IPTV boxes here in Singapore use Windows CE as a base. And Ericsson's Mediaroom. (Singtel TV)
Hmm, maybe you can try to get a Dish Network Cable Box and see if it will work with the bell network
Have you tried directly connecting the phone line? Your box is likely disturbing the signal.
Yeah, that doesn’t help. That and you can hear the packet loss, lower speed modems really hate that.
The core function of the RemoteMix is to do magic on phone lines for remote media broadcast. But, it can also be used like this.
The front end is very high impedance and presents almost no load to the phone line. Actually, much less than an extension phone for example. If it didn't, it would "pick up" the line on its own. Since it doesn't, you can generally assume (in this situation) that it's not affecting the line.
@@midiwall It did pick up the line on its own though, when he hit the switch on it.
It sounded like a 56K modem having a stroke.
Gina Valentina on the Thumbnail 😂
I don’t miss the days when you had to pay for naughty material. Of course, there were ways to get it for free then, too. This thing really is old!
Well I have half a hard drive full of it that someone paid for
Can I use bell expressvu in America as a DISH 500?
Hey can you do this with a DirecTV D12-100 Receiver?
This unit is from 2008 or up
Because it has a hdmi
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13:49 HAHAHHAHAHAHAA! An** Beauties 6 😂. Bro
It only took them 6 times to finally get it right !
Hello Can you find some old bell receivers From 1999 to 2007 That will be a good video or Find some old footage I really like your channel
I JTAG a 3100 in this video: th-cam.com/video/5JKYJLH6lGQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hv3C0xIGSB8PEy2G&t=1443
what was the phone line for
That's how these old satellite receivers called the service provider to get you authorized for PPV purchases. They used a dialup internal modem.
@@peterfairlie2296even old DirecTV receiver like the D12-100?
This looks like the Dish Network ViP series DVRs.
It is as it's also made by EchoStar
@@peterfairlie2296 I've also heard that Bell's satellite TV service used to be called Dish Network Canada, so there's that to throw in.
Here in Quebec it's Ici Radio Canada
connecting website using dial phone sound effects!
It was not a sound effect, this was a real 2400 baud dialup call. The receiver placed the call to the satellite operators billing management computer system. Some type of account lookup took place and the receive was found to not be an active account and the call was terminated. A second call was hung-up on immediately since were were previously identified as unwelcome.
@@peterfairlie2296 You know what you need to do know. Reverse-engineer the protocol, copy down some of your friends' receiver numbers, and simulate some, uhhhh, $$$ orders. For science.
is there a good cheap alternative for the RemoteMix 3
For just listening in on the modems communications any speaker phone will do
The paper view thing didn’t work because you need to have an actual Bell account so they can bill you for the paper view.
I knew it wasn't going to work but it was fun hearing that 2400 baud dialup modem from 25 years ago.
@@peterfairlie2296 that made me feel old lol
TURN IT INTO A TIVO!
It downloaded the updated channel maps
There is a satellite card in these that has to be updated
You get a new card when you get service
not exactly a hack is it?
I’m sorry. I don’t know what you did. I don’t have a hard drive on my receiver.
sounds like it’s screaming
Yeah, well he was one thing I’m not gonna kink shame and buddy that person should’ve delete that off before they sold it
I can tell you how to get every channel they have for free.
I wonder what is the phone number did it call?
1-888-292-3059 was the mother ship
@@peterfairlie2296 I wonder how many people decided to dial the number. I did lol and sure enough a low speed modem picked up. Man, I would love to try to initiate a connection 😆
Sounds to me like the distant modem isn’t hearing yours. It’s possible that monitor box is dragging the signal level down too low. Try it without it.
no way you live in thailand
thb (thai bath)
Thailand? I only wish !
Lololololol
HACK THA PLANET!!!!
Roku channel...
Little too hard lol
Man all these boxes and wires is useless just get a couple of IPTV providers with an Apple TV or a Fire TV Stick and your good 😊👍👌
But you still have to sub an IPTV provider and pay for internet. With my satellite hookup it's totally FREE.
@@peterfairlie2296 oh that’s pretty good if your getting free internet 🛜 what’s the download speed you get and is the internet good for wifi
No, you don't need any internet at all to watch TV using my hack as the TV signal is coming directly from a satellite.
@@peterfairlie2296 ah okay but are you still getting free internet 🛜 that you can use for your pc or cellphone or gaming console 🤔
I do that in this video th-cam.com/video/2njqPpFXhMI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yn8sZbFQuuuIBBaP&t=65
this bell contect is crap 😅
You know you can get in trouble because they are tracing you. And this is illegal also
No, they are not. Also, who is "they?"
Shh first rule is never talk about "they"
it sounds like a bancie