</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Vlad:<br /><strong> Yes, but... If FOX/Austar decides they are sick of it and it’s eating into their pockets, Fox will just switch off I2 and Austar will just change encryption to NDS too. All that at such a small cost.<br />TARBS and now UBI Globecast and whatever would have to go around collecting the old shitboxes and replacing them with new shitboxes. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Its not "small costs" when changing encryption system. Small costs means:<br /><br />* costs for simulcrypting (SMS, Billing etc..)<br />* changing of customer STB's (for FOXTEL thats all the customers with I2 encrytion say 1/2 million at USD$150 a box. This is equivalent to 75 million)<br /><br />For the Pay TV companies its a matter of how they deal with piracy and what steps they take to combat it and its no small cost.