Free-to-Air TV and Radio?

ChiaBen asks: "I was visiting a friend recently who has a Free-to-air satellite receiver. It allows him to pick up any free satellite TV and radio programs, along with many pay-to-view (requires a payment, of course) programs. Nokia has a receiver, and I'd like to know if else is making similar hardware. It seems interesting, but before I drop a few hundred bones on one, I'd like to know what everyone has to say about it?"

Comments

Re:Don't make it to easy for us...

[OSUJoe]

"we Brits invented the computer and the web..."

Oh come ON... everyone knows Al Gore isn't British.

Re:I do not do this.

[jmorris42]

> Should you listen in on NSA/CIA/DIA communications just because they are being
> broadcast into your back yard?

Yes! If you think you have a chance of doing it and are 'into' that sort of thing you most certainly should try. If you succeed you should quietly notify the agency that their crypto is breakable. Because if you can break it the odds are that another intelligence agency somewhere can also break it. Peer reviewing our national security aparatus should be considered patriotic.