What can you use the Smart Card slot for?

[Pixl]

I've been playing with my first FTA receiver, an 1100c for two weeks now and love it. Are there services that use the smart card up there?

[Pepper]

There's at least one. My church has a Glorystar receiver with a card in it, they are providing a Beth Moore broadcast of some sort that is apparently encrypted.

[toddha]

I was under the impression that the BISS-1, BISS-E encryption is built-in to the receiver and receives its KEYS from the FIRMWARE updates. And that the card slot is just for adding additional IRDETO or other types for in-church and other special situations/broadcasts. The built-in cardless BISS-1 BISS-E is an automatic system, as I understand it which is already built-into the receiver. Either the KEYS are transmitted with the FIRMWARE updates or are PRE-SET at manufacturing time of the receiver.

I guess if there is a time when BISS encryption pops up on my Mercury II receiver on a channel, I guess I could try same channel on my DVR1100c receiver, see if it gets it or not. I'm not really sure what Glorystar is planning/going to do with the built-in cardless BISS-1/E feature. Time will tell. All of this assumes that my info on this matter/subject is correct.