Pay TV History

WTN is an unrelated Canadian channel.

It ended up as Soho before closing.

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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 :relieved_face:
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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This is peak!

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:

Source: https://www.grays.com/retail/FX-F-165/audio-tv-and-home-theatre/foxtel-f-165-iq-remote-iq-multiroom-new