C@@lsat Saga // 2008-05-29 I have been receiving lot of inquiries regarding C@@lsat support (may be NO support)on their older models 4000, 5000 and 6000, here are the details I got after doing some digging around.
C@@lsat 4000, 5000 and 6000 were made by a separate company out of the Korea than the 6100, 7000 and 7100, to make the matter even more complicated they decided to go with a 3rd company for the 8000 and 8100 receivers..... Freetech (North American importer) of the above receivers did not pay their first gen. receiver coders well to take care of his product so they decided to screw him around with his older models, 6100, 7000 and 7100 coders did not like his pay either and they decided to throw their support behind the different importer K HUB (K1 Heros and K2 Extreme same manufacture out of Korea as C@@lsat 6100, 7000 and 7100 models), these guys claim that the end seem to be near between Freetech and Korean manufacture, Freetech is offering to take back 4000, 5000 and 6000 and trade them up to C@@lsat 6100 with a fee of $89 (that is wholesale price of C@@lsat 6100 and it will help them get rid of 30,000 units they are stuck with) once they have money in their pocket they will go on with different manufactures and customers will be left to fend for themselves with no support just like the older models they just traded.
I was told that K Heros coders can take care of the coding of 6100, 7000 and 7100 if they decide to do it, the k-hubs work with c@@lsat 6100, 7100 currently and they auto run off of k-hub servers NOT c@@lsat servers,c@@lsat dongle and server are still at only a few dozen channels.
6100 and 7100 files are from the khub team.
That is the story on C@@lsat and future does not look too bright for them at this time.