Most of the revolutionary inventions nowadays happen quietly, unnoticed, without TV cameras and press all over it.
In the age of the Internet engines of creations are driven by anonymous individuals hidden behind enigmatic nicknames, men with no signatures, meetings without handshakes or proper team introductions. Some nicks and projects will remain through search engines cache for years, others will fade away into mist of time with barely geocities page as an epitaph, without distinction between single person or a group of people.

Since the last fully patchable Irdeto hardware with softcell version 2.06 is long discontinued and almost completely gone from the market anything with label "allcam" or "freecam" in the last few years proven to be highly popular and as such also bearing heavy price tag. This popularity doesn't come from the fact there is such wide market for Irdeto or, Lord save us, Betacrypt channels. It's the amateur experiments and the will to overcome region devided baundries that drive this particular market and there is no doubt about it. Recent appearance of numerous receivers with allcam/multicam patchable embedded card readers, and even to a certain extend Alphacrypt modules, do fill in this particular market niche almost completely. One could wonder what is so special about Gammacrypt and Magic Module that could justify the purchase of module and programmer?

For starters - just like other Irdeto based allcam devices, Gammacrypt has the specific dev features required for so called "Xin1" experiments. However, unlike other Xin1 apparatus' Gammacrypt seems to be idyllically ignorant about card type, therefore Fun and DS9 cards from both Humax and Nokias and of various other types and sorts may serve their test functions no questions asked.

As far as certain multiencryption experiments go - Gammacrypt on Magic Module is capable of absolutely everything device of such type is expected to do and does it quite well. Yet that doesn't stop anonymous developers from breaking even further down the front in their quest. With revision 0.13 Gammacrypt was renamed to Tetracrypt 1.0, and it wasn't because releasers were superstitional but to mark the achievement - compatibility with native Nagravision cards...

Is it the end of the line for standard, licensed and unlicensed modules? Should you put all your old modules up on Ebay right now or sell them in the nearest pawn shop and buy one of these instead? Well, as long as there is a dosh at risk for big providers there are no guarantees and there are no certain investments on the satellite market, make no mistake about it. If your satellite interests are limited to running through the channels twice a week, and for every item you buy you need separate three year on side warranty just to be able to sleep peacefully - I won't lie to you - this particular product is most likely not for you.

On the other hand - All of you that plan to purchase Irdeto allcam or a multicam receiver in the nearest future might consider getting Magic Module instead. In a long run it's cheaper, more interesting and, time will tell, perhaps even more future proof. If you like to occupy yourself with testing, flashing, whathaveyou and are not afraid of cables stuck to the back of your boxes, this product could join your collection of programmers and smart cards and fit right there very well. For the sake of invention itself if not its usability, so highly valued by some.

It certainly looks georgeous in the only CI slot of my Nokia 9600 and I hope I will get to keep it.