Virgin Media applied a similar change around a year ago, and it took almost a week for firmware updates for chipped boxes to keep pace. A genuine card can handle the change, an emulator can not.” Users receiving cable TV illegally receive the error message “Please wait…code been updated” and no channels can be accessed.Īccording to industry analyst Ian Waller, “The change is causing false keys to be recorded on a ROM7 update, usually only 1 or 2 characters are wrong, this has been happening on ROM10 and ROM11 updates for the last year. Cable boxes affected include the Eurovox, Nokia Dbox, Starview and Kryptview. Virgin Media have applied a code update which has crippled cable boxes across the country which were used for receiving cable TV illegally.
