As you’ve probably already noticed most of your channels are starting to be moved over to the new cards called Nagra3.  If you are looking for the new N3 files and fixes to get your channels back up and running you will need to be very patient.  N2News is working extremely hard to get you (our members) some good news but right now we can’t make any promises.  It’s been extremely rewarding helping all our 25,000 members with their FTA receivers for over 4 years now and we will continue to keep our FTA forums active with discussions and news related to getting new FTA files for you.  We will continue to have all the latest information, instructions, and support for TRUE FTA which is completely legal and simple to do except doesn’t offer nearly as many channels.  I will personally re-aim my dish and start enjoying some “true FTA” satellite TV channels and statiions.

All boxes are missing the same channels for now. Kbox has internationals and porn channels up, but still missing all other channels, Nfusion is thought to have all N3 channels open, but will not release them until DN makes the full switch to N3, Coolsat is down, an I do not think we will see any more files from them!!! The way it looks to me, Infusion will be first to have N3 channels open, an then Kbox, an maybe sonicview with the new Ihub they have, but no software at this time for it.

Please remember this is all speculation and can’t be taken as the gospel.  Nobody knows what will truly happen until it happens with the N3 card swap.  N2News is not making any guarantees just yet.  Please subscribe to this feed to get the news instantly delivered to your email or RSS reader.

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Dish channels are almost completely moved now to N3.  Please prepare yourself for the switchover by downloading the latest fixes and updates from the N2News members section for your receiver.  Please stand by as more information regarding the N3 switch over will be posted tomorrow.

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Tonight is the official release of N2News “Version 2.0″ if you will.  We’ve closed down our members section for the next few hours while we update our servers and present our members with a whole new look and feel for N2News.  We spent months deciding exactly how to make N2News even easier to navigate, use, and download the latest autoroll BIN files for ALL major brands of FTA receiver while being able to find help, support, and tutorials just as easy.  This new members section will give members the easiest and most user friendly experience available from any FTA website on the internet.

1. Find the latest files for your receiver even easier now with new drop down menus!
2. Get help and support in minutes to help you setup your receiver!
3. Tutorials, Videos, and FTA Receiver Setup Guides all in one easy place!
4. New Nagra3 section for all the latest news and N3 downloads!
5. More Organized and Easier to Navigate than ANY other FTA site on the Internet!

We’d love to hear what you have to say about the new look and feel to N2News.  Please comment to this post with your thoughts.  If you have any suggestions for us please post them in our “Suggestions for N2News” section in our members forums.

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This is just a friendly update for our members and non-members who are wondering about N3 and memberships with N2News.  N2News has been around since the start of FTA and will continue to support all major brands of free to air receivers well into the age of N3.

N2News already supports N3 for some receivers including NFusion Solaris and HD.  We are happy to announce that we will support every receiver that updates for N3 are available for.  If your receiver doesn’t release any N3 files or fixes then we’ll help find you a solution that works for you to get you some satellite TV with the receiver you do own.  We will keep you all updated as new receivers have N3 fixes available for download.

Here at N2News we strive to offer our members the absolute best in FTA support and N3 / N2 files and fixes  for their FTA satellite receivers.  We will continue to give our members the easiest solution when it comes to downloading the most updated autoroll BIN files and keys for their particular receiver model.

We are here to help all our members with their FTA needs.  We will help to make the switch to N3 a simple and worry free experience for you.  Please email us or check out our N3 section in the members area if you would like to read more about this.

Basically if you own an FTA receiver, we can help you get Free to Air satellite TV working in your home or business. Get Free channels and TV with True Free to Air channels available for everyone.  Join Now to learn more and start watching thousands of satellite TV channels with your FTA receiver.

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Noteworthy News

by Sammy Satellite. – Staff Writer for n2news

The US Senate voted on Monday to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital broadcasting.   The new date would be June 12^th, 2009 instead of February 17^th.   The funding limit for converter boxes had already been reached and there are a significant number of people still waiting for a coupon so they can upgrade.   Those in the know have already switched to FTA but others now have 4 more months to figure out what to do.    The House, however, rejected the delay and it would appear that the date will not chance.  Nielson, a large ratings company in the US, suggests only 6% of houses are still not prepared for the transition.    I would guess that those people don’t watch a lot of TV anyway.

Comcast’s advertising sales division Comcast Spotlight and DISH Network announced a new agreement under which Comcast Spotlight will sell ads on DISH’s 10 regional sports networks in seven U.S. markets. The markets involved include Boston, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta and Houston.

VOOM HD Networks extended an agreement with British Sky Broadcasting to bring RUSH HD content to GO!VIEW, a subscription video-on-demand offering. Owners of the PlayStation Portable who subscribe to GO!VIEW can access the extreme-sports content from the service.   Also available through the GO!VIEW “Sports” package is content from ESPN and Sky Sports.

Cablevision has ditched carriage of the VOOM networks, replacing the high-def channels with content from the big three premium programmers.

Ciel-2 (replacing E5 at 129 shortly as I mentioned in my last Noteworthy report) is revving up with HD locals for Atlanta, Austin, Beaumont, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Des Moines, Detroit, Fargo, Fort Myers, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Joplin, Kansas City, Lincoln, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, Mobile, Nashville, Norfolk, Omaha, Orlando, Palm Springs, Peoria, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Richmond, Roanoke, Sherman-Ada, St. Louis, Tampa, Topeka, Waco, West Palm Beach, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Casper, Charlottesville, Charleston-Huntington WV, Clarksburg-Weston WV, Columbus again, Dayton, Erie, San Angelo, Sioux City, Wausau, Fairbanks, Juneau, Indianapolis, Bakersfield, and many, many other markets!

It seems the Pakistan channels on sat providers are going N3.  Watch for other small markets to come.  More details in my next Noteworthy News report.

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Has nFusion cracked the N3 encryption?

by Sammy Satellite. – Staff Writer for n2news

The internet is a-buzz will rumors that the programmers at nFusion have managed to crack the encryption system called “N3”.   Recently one of the large North American sat companies starting using N3 primarily and the other has begun the switch.   Those of you following my other articles on the switchover to N3 know that this is nothing to panic about as there are many Free-To-Air signals you can tune into and the correct bin file allows a wide range of other signals to be accessed.     Here are some interesting things to keep in mind:

It is not likely that anyone who has a solution to the N3 issue will say anything about it for another year or so.    If a solution is presented too early, any provider that has not yet shipped a full N3 implementation will have the option to revise that plan and that would only hurt the FTA hobby.

There is no great demand for a solution to the N3 problem yet so there is no great brainpower fully behind a solution yet.   Certainly smart people are looking at N3 right now, however, the incentive for them to “bust it wide open” is not there until further into the card deployments coming during 2009.   These programmers are busy people, look for them to focus their effort right now in better support for HDTV, better EPGS, more accurate scanning, and better PVR support.

N3 has been under investigation in Europe for some time and there is no working solution across the Atlantic yet.

When N2 was cracked there was a brilliant programmer in Europe that played a key role.   He isn’t actively working on N3, in fact, he was hired by the developers of the N3 system to help protect it against people just like himself.  This one will, no doubt, be tougher to crack that anything before it.   Even with this brilliant programmer, who was paid a rumored six-figure finders fee to help break the N2 code something was still missing.   An unknown satellite company paid and employee for part of the internal N2 key needed to start writing bin files.   Now, these codes are held much closer to the company.

The simplest answer is most often the right answer.   In this case, it would seem that nfusion is using a type of card sharing system takes advantage of a valid working N3 card to handle the decoding.

The bottom line, it doesn’t matter how the did it or what cards they are holding back.  It looks like the folks behind the nfusion want to be out in front of the pack and they are eager to prove their place in the market.   Other companies are not far behind but haven’t released enough details to know what they have in store for us.

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