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How to Manually Load Key's Or Make opkeys file Viewsat :
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How to make an OPKEY file and what is actually is has been a question of many members. I just received a Instruction Manual of sorts from Teach. I will post it for all to see and use for their own purposes.
Good Luck And Have Fun!

Make an opkey.hex from your ViewSat by teach 08-10-06
Copyright teachdivin 2006

1. Punch the keys in with your REMOTE CONTROL in
MENU--INSTALLATION--CODE--NAGRA--DISH < 01 01 00 >

2. Open LOADER2; NULL serial cable hooked to VS; VS power "ON"

3. MENU--INSTALLATION--RECEIVER UPGRADE

4. Click on KEY DATA (#6) in RECEIVER UPGRADE

5. Click on STB-->PC and the file transfers to your computer's LOADER2 directory... then I rename "teach 08-10-06-3PM opkey.hex" or as appropriate

Zip it for those wanting a ZIP;
Hex it for those wanting a hex;
Text for those punching in via REMOTE

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Other Benefits of digital TV
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There are benefits to digital TV other than the obvious ones of improved picture and sound quality.
Multicasting Just as a DVD can contain several different programs on a single disc, so can a DTV broadcast contain several TV programs on the same channel. This technique is called multicasting, and it allows the broadcaster to serve several different audiences at the same time. Or a cable system operator can use channel space more efficiently by carrying multiple digital cable programs on one channel.

Here’s a real-world example. A local TV station elects to send out three DTV programs. The first program offers HDTV shows and sports, while the second offers SD versions of the same programming. Finally, a third program carries continuous local weather information. Your digital TV set-top receiver or integrated TV will automatically find all of these programs for you and identify each with a unique channel number.

In this case, the first program (HDTV) would appear as channel 6-1. The second program would come up as channel 6-2, and the 24/7 weather programming would show up as 6-3.

The digital TV or external set-top receiver knows how many of these TV programs are on each channel by reading the digital program data packets. For a better understanding of how this works, think of the TV channel as a “digital shoebox.”

Multicasting allows you to choose from up to four images on the same channel.
Datacasting Another benefit of digital TV is datacasting. The broadcaster sends out data separate from any TV programs. That data could be anything from prices and delivery information on a home shopping channel to interactive text and graphics on an educational channel.

In the cable world, this process is used to order video-on-demand (VOD) programs. It could also be used to provide high-speed Internet access to the user, with a slower connection going back to the broadcaster or satellite operator.
Datacasting allows broadcasters to supplement a TV program with information screens similar to Web pages.

Digital AudioJust as a DVD will offer multiple soundtracks, you’ll find that many digital TV broadcasts let you listen in single-channel (mono), two-channel (stereo), or even surround-sound audio modes such as Dolby Digital 5.1. The latter, (DD 5.1 as it is called in industry shorthand) requires four speakers for surround sound effects, a center speaker for dialogue, and a sub-woofer for bass effects. There is provision for the mono audio track to be broadcast in multiple languages but that feature is not widely used at present.

With such a setup, you will feel more like you’re in a movie theater than at home watching TV programs. Surround sound is particularly effective with live sporting events such as auto racing, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. Add in widescreen pictures and high definition, and you have a truly immersive TV viewing experience!  

Understanding binary code
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Very special thanks to Blackswan for this information


Computers are nothing more than a calculator on steroids. The only thing they understand, is numbers. You may see words on the screen when you're chatting on the forums, or realistic graphics while playing your favorite game, but all the computer sees are numbers. Millions of numbers. Thatis the way computers work. They calculate lots of numbers very fast. To understand this, we need to understand how a computer works. A computer is nothing more than a bunch of switches. They only have two positions, on or off. Everything a computer does involves turning these switches on and off in certain sequences.
Let's go back to grade school for a moment. In school we learned about the base ten or Arabic numbering system. which is also called the decimal system. What this means is that we have ten digits in our numbering system. Rember the columns you were taught? Ones, tens, hundreds and thousands, etc remember no column could contain a number higher than 9. When counting, you increase each digit in the right-most place column until you reach 9, then you return to zero and place a 1 in the next column to the left. Well suprise! other numbering systems work the same way. In computer programming we use two numbering systems that are interrelated. The base 2 system, called the binary system, and the base 16 system called the hexidecimal, or hex system.
Computers use the two digit, or binary system to represent how it sets it's switches, either on-0 or off-1 We call such numbers binary numbers (bin means two), and they follow the same basic rules that decimal numbers do: Start with 0, increment to 1, then go back to 0 and increment the next column to the left. For example:
binary-decimal equivelent
0- 0
1- 1
10- 2
11- 3
100- 4
101- 5
110- 6
111- 7
1000- 8
1001- 9

Notice that having only two digits to work with means that your place columns grow rapidly. Because of this there is another numbering system that is used with computers, hexidecimal. Hexidecimai, or hex, as it is called is a base 16 numbering system which means that every places column counts up to sixteen individual digits. Now we have to have somthing to represent the extra six digits. We do this by using the first six letters of the alphabet. Thus the digits for the hexidecimal numbering system are:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Hexidecimal numbers work exactly the same way the other numbering systems do. Count up to the last digit, then return to zero and increment the next column to the left. For example:
hexidecimal-decimal equivelent
0- 0
1- 1
2- 2
3- 3
4- 4
5- 5
6- 6
7- 7
8- 8
9- 9
A- 10
B- 11
C- 12
D- 13
E- 14
F- 15
10- 16
11- 17
and so on.
the hexidecimal numbering system, is the a standard for computer programmers and engineers the world over. It is common when viewing a bin to use a hex editor/viewer that displays the hex values of each character. Hex values are usually shown in groups of four characters consisting of two bytes. One byte=two hex characters, or xx. Two bytes= four hex characters or xxxx.
A byte is, 8 bits in size. It can be represented by a two digit hexidecimal number (00-FF). If you are programming for the Windows platform in C or C++ you have probably noticed the commonly used variable type DWORD (Double-WORD). A WORD is 16 bits iin size, which makes a DWORD 32 bits. If you are an HTML programmer you have probably seen color values that are composed of hex numbers. Colors are represented as a mixture of Red, Green and Blue values (RGB). Each of these three primary colors can have a value from 0-255 (decimal), which translates into three sets of two-digit hexidecimal numbers: 00 1A FF. So you can see we use these hex values tell the computer what to do. Hex values can be designated by a $, $4ff0, or a 0x, 0x4ff0. The $ is the old way, and the 0x is the current method.