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sam1275:
So I'm just look around ebay to see thermal cameras, and I found these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLIR-E30-E40-E50-Camera-UPGRADE-TO-E60-REMOTE-SERVICE-320x240-Resolution-Menu-/222433284388?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLIR-E4-to-E8-Camera-UPGRADE-SERVICE-320-x-240-Resolution-MSX-Menu-remotely-/172661511390?
It charges $200 for a "service" which is free on our forum.  :horse:

Edit: Fine, I just know there's many of these, the above link just little examples, just 2 of them.  :palm:

Chanc3:
Flir should be quick to send a cease and desist letter. Although saying that, if they've got a secret to cracking the newer firmware - worth the money!

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sam1275:

--- Quote from: Chanc3 on July 05, 2017, 05:17:51 pm ---if they've got a secret to cracking the newer firmware

--- End quote ---
I don't think so, all of them need the buyer to tell them the firmware version "to check if upgradable"

Pinkus:
Well, he says:
Please, note that cameras with MSX are only partially upgradable. For more info please contact us.
so no new unkown hack - probably just whats in the forum.
17 sold! so he made 3400 bucks until now. Yeah, lets hope Flirs laywers will send him a nice letter including a massive note of laywer fees.

Ben321:

--- Quote from: Pinkus on July 05, 2017, 05:23:49 pm ---Well, he says:
Please, note that cameras with MSX are only partially upgradable. For more info please contact us.
so no new unkown hack - probably just whats in the forum.
17 sold! so he made 3400 bucks until now. Yeah, lets hope Flirs laywers will send him a nice letter including a massive note of laywer fees.

--- End quote ---

I don't think they can order him to stop selling the service, any more than they can order EEVBlog to stop discussing the hack. There's no law that says it's illegal to upgrade your hardware, even if it does upgrade cheaper hardware into more expensive hardware, at a tiny fraction of the cost of purchasing the more expensive hardware to start with. People do that with computers all the time (upgrading the hardware by buying parts, rather than buying a more expensive computer off the shelf). And there's nothing wrong with selling a service to do something that many people might not feel they themselves are capable of (due to worrying they accidentally breaking it if they tried it themselves). Yes, there's tutorials online on how to upgrade the RAM in your PC, but there's also computer stores where you can take your computer who will upgrade your RAM for you (and provide other similar services) for a price (Best Buy has Geek Squad for example). EEVBlog does not have exclusive rights to the know-how for upgrading E4 to E8. Just because people here are the first to discover it, does not mean that it's illegal for others to sell the act of doing the upgrade as a service.

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