Wait about a month ... by that time everything should be in Nagra 3 * and it will be much clearer what's up on the sat field.
* As per user posting in nfusionforum.com who has a regular sub card from DN, he is getting "Replace card by June 4" on all remaining channels in Nagra 2 on his Nagra 2 sub card. At that date the rest of the channels in N2 should stop working with regular subscriber Nagra 2 cards. From the past experience of Nagra2 to Nagra 3 migration (on channels gone already N3), FTA receivers and all hacked ROM cards will be affected approximately 3 to 7 days later.
In a certain way, this is a good news. Nfusion will not release anything new until Dish makes the first move and switches everything to Nagra 3. Most other receivers will most likely be left in the dark as they do not use Internet Key Sharing (IKS), but rather standolone bins (emulation). Nagra 3 has 99% been not broken yet so standalone bins will not be working. Sonicview has already released Internet dongle, Viewsat is expected to either release something (like a dongle) or come up with Ethernet-enabled new receiver. K-BOX is able to decrypt Intrnational channels already in N3 using IKS, and I-Link (sold in Mexico) is using IKS for Nagra 3 channels on DN, emulation for Nagra 2 channels on DN, and IKS for Amazonas and SKY.
Nfusion is currently doing IKS for nagra 3 channels on BEV and IKS for Nagra 2 channels on DN. Nfusion si the only one that has Nagra 3 channels on BEV opened at all (75% channels working), no other receiver is getting BEV (Canada) form the time they completely switched to Nagra 3 in November 2008.
For now, IKS seems to be the nearest future of FTA, until (and there is big IF) Nagra 3 is broken or leaked or stolen or anything. This means no PPV but most of the channels which can get subscription (including premium movies e.,g. HBO, Cinemax, etc. and some XXX) should be available via IKS (using a regular sub card on the server doing the key sharing).
IKS in simple words: getting decryption commands from a centralized server about every 30 seconds. The centralized server has a regular functional subscriber card and is "reading" the decryption codes as they come from PROVIDER to a regular PROVIDER receiver (even though it cannot break them, just read them) and copies these codes to the server which responds to "requests" from the "remote terminals" (the nfusions).
The whole process is kind of a business secret and the reason why nfusion has been so successful.
Right now, everybody is saying this: wait and see, don't buy anything, and that means ANYTHING.
Here is the updated list of channels gone N3 already on Charlie TV (D!$h)
http://www.dr1.com/forums/759006-post2.html
To end this post, a little bit of optimism: C&P from a different site, from Superstar (unofficial speaker for Pyros twins (nfusion team):
Everyone can say what they want but until real proof is released, it is all rumors.
Remember, nfusion also has been working very hard and they already have most of the channels working but not released yet.
This was not released again for specific reasons but it will be sooner than later.
They have done there tests, all 100%, no freezing like the competition.
Just let Sonicview do there things and let nFusion answer them back.
Who would you guess is the expert in this technology?
nFusion makes it look too easy but it is not like anyone can do at the moment.
Also, like I stated before, Internationals are very important and will be up.
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SUPERSTAR
