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Irdeto is a company which sells conditional access systems for digital satellite and cable television. Irdeto is a division of Naspers, a South African company.

In common usage, the term Irdeto is most used to refer to the Irdeto encryption system used by satellite broadcasters such as South Africa’s DStv and Australia’s Austar.

The current revision of Irdeto is Irdeto 2.

Irdeto is marketed in two packages, M-Crypt and PIsys. M-Crypt is marketed to small and medium sized digital broadcasters, while PIsys is marketed to digital broadcasters with large users bases and/or large numbers of channels.

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  1. Mr L B Shaw says:

    Hi
    I have a Humax foxsat-hdr unit that needs a ci unit for and smart card to enable me to receive additional sat programmes, humax says in there literature that you sell them
    questions
    1 how much does it cost
    2 what smart card would I need to get the freeview stations which I can not on the free sat system and what cost
    thank you
    kind regards
    MR L B Shaw

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  2. Angela says:

    hi ,
    We have a FOXSAT-HDR box brought from the U.K. to Australia and what type of card would we need for it to work and if there is such a thing we can we but one from?

    Thanks ,  

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  3. tony says:

    I have a technosat 7000 plus model how do i get free to air channels

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