Found this bad boy while cleaning up. I don’t have a dish to have a play but it still boots up.
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Reading through this thread, and damn that IQ2 menu and remote design was peak.
It just looks so good for the time and was so clean 
Still have my old IQ2 remote and maybe the silver box it was.
Yep. I still think for its time this was probably the better STB. I had the IQ4 as well and it was good as well but it did come with problems the IQ2 didn’t have.
I’m stuck with the IQ3 which is terrible, so slow and laggy, and the new remote they gave us is worse to try and find programs. But I’ll be buggered if I’m giving them any money for a new box haha.
This was always crap. when it was coming out I got the IQ2.
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I still reckon they’re the best design.
I remember buying an iQ multi-room kit from Dick Smith, which had that remote plus an IR over RF blaster which was just fantastic. Foxtel soon got rid of it, no doubt to encourage paid multi-room subscriptions. But the fact the iQ 1/1.5 could read IR commands over coax with no extra dongles was pretty genius.
Wtf is that lol. Is this the old original pay tv STB?
I never had the Dick smith kit but I had one of these IR over RF blasters for mine for a few years then ended up with multi room
I have vague recollections of a box looking like that for Optus Vision.
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This is the only evidence I could find of the kit:
If anyone is feeling nostalgic, check out ersatztv.org. It allows you to insert filler content like bumpers and even watermarks!
This brings back memories!
I worked on the project in Foxtel that was responsible for these accessories packs. I was re-writing the instruction guides that came with the kits. They were originally from PACE and the language used was… well not that great. A lot of work was done to fix these!
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I really liked your team’s product! I remember the thin black and white instruction booklet very well. Turned to it often for the learning function instructions. I might have a PDF copy of it buried somewhere…
Edit: Found it!
Foxtel iQ Remote Manual.pdf (404.0 KB)
Do we have any pay TV history buffs who remember the cable TV provider Saturn (and later TelstraSaturn)?
I remember my uncle had it, mainly for sport.
I think that was a New Zealand pay TV provider.
Don’t know if this is still a thing but the Main Event Channel when it didn’t have an event on would basically be wall to wall promos for upcoming events all day then would switch to the naughty stuff during the overnight hours
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Night Movies. it was like midnight to 5am or something. I worked for a cold call company selling foxtel at the time and it was a major selling point, despite it being rated R and not X (so no penetration was shown)
it was quite expensive as well given its limited run (i want to say $10 a month)
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Even if you didn’t subscribe. It would be a blank screen but you could still hear the channel. Don’t judge me. I was 15 at the time 
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