Any progress on hacking the old Voom STBs?

[txdude]

Hi guys, it's been a long time since I've visited SatelliteGuys. The website looks great! Actually, I haven't been by since Voom went under. After that I switched over to Comcast, which has since become Time Warner in this area.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand... I was moving some stuff out of my attic a couple of days ago and came across my two activated Voom receivers which I tested and both still work great for OTA, so I was going to just put them on craigslist, but I was wondering if anyone has been hacking at the software on these boxes to get some additional functionality out of them like enabling the USB port, or if anyone knows of any websites that may have more info about these boxes? It'd be awesome if we could get video out of that USB port.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Nothing can be done with them as there is no software in place which would let users hack on some features.

Most if not all the folks trying gave up a long time ago.

Long Live Voom.

 

[txdude]

Thanks for the reply Scott. That's sad to hear, I was hoping these STBs had some potential other than just being bare bones HD OTA tuners.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Nope nothing more then that, although they are good OTA tuners for being free.

 

[riffjim4069]

FYI: once refurbished (OTA module pulled, flashed, new faceplace, etc.), they also make an excellent Star Choice satellite receiver (DSR-505a).