Former Satellite TV channels

[catseye]

Here's a few idents I found

Feel free to add to the collection

[holmroad]

Wow, Filmnet and Teleclub - all those D2Mac memories!

[skomedal]

65255

TV1000 was previously transmitted using D2-MAC and encrypted with the EuroCrypt encryption system. It was available originally via the Astra 1A satellite


_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_Film


:ack2:

[dave13142]

65256 hey remember super channel on 19.2

[3tv]

fimnet, tv1000 and the tv3's. ah the memories.

[holmroad]

D2Mac seemed to have this mega vivid colour compared to the old analogue vid!

[TonyO]

wow, I'd forgotten those old logos, they used to be all we could get in the tv famine !

[holmroad]

wow, I'd forgotten those old logos, they used to be all we could get in the tv famine !

Not half TonyO, all that 'pioneering' spirit we had, obtaining latest cards, codes, EMU's, etc etc all in the cause of getting free TV - how times have changed! lol!!

[Mobley2]

Some good memories there

regards mobley2

[jag123]

the good old days tv 1000 filmnet what were the channels called on I west there began with k I cant remember what there were called

[zola25]

the good old days tv 1000 filmnet what were the channels called on I west there began with k I cant remember what there were called
Do you mean Kiosk all i can think of.

[holmroad]

Yes there were 'Kiosk' on 1W and 'Kiosque' on 19E (French of course!)

[jag123]

that's the one there were a few of them

[Satcat]

I remember manually moving my old amstrad dish to 45W and picking up The discovery channel/The learning channel. It only broadcast for a few hours a day, but what a thrill that was.
If I remember correctly, it didn't have a channel logo, just basic print.

[jag123]

I remember fox sports on 43 west and the military feed on 30 west a then some boay went on the news to show every one then it went encripted

[Detlef]

ScreenSport - FTA on 19E. Owned by WHSmiths I think.

[holmroad]

ScreenSport - FTA on 19E. Owned by WHSmiths I think.

Wow, can't believe you remember that mate, I used to watch it all the time all those years ago!

[xanadu]

CineCinema 16/9 I think it was on 8W in D2MAC

[Detlef]

Wow, can't believe you remember that mate, I used to watch it all the time all those years ago!

It's called: being old :D

That was back in the days when we only had 16 channels on Astra - and when Roop said Sky TV (now Sky One) would never be scrambled.

[kegnkiwi]

I remember most of these channels when the sky box only had 16 channels, where got one of the early amstrad srd400 with 48 channel capacity. I remember that astra launched a new sat and our receiver could not pick the frequency up so I went down the market and got a frequency expander. I had to wire it into one of the live pins on the scart plug.

[catseye]

Heres another for you ...

[holmroad]

Heres another for you ...

Wow yes mate, I've still got a few old movie recordings from Premiere on my TM5402HD M3 hard disc!!

[wigan13]

does anyone remember when the sat football @ 3pm was on tv2 norway,good old day
wigan13

[catseye]

Will try & find some more when I get chance

Interesting if anyone remembers these & can find some idents/logos etc

TPS/Multivision Package @ 19.2 East
Paco Package?? nka as Digital+/Moviestar @ 19.2 East
Cant find a an ident for FilmMax the sister channel to TV000 broadcast in the mid 1990's @ 27.5 west

Im sure there are plenty of others too

[wigan13]

i remember sky radio
not stop music i think is it still going
wigan13:respect-058:

[Detlef]

RTL Radio on 19E is still there I think.

In the early days (circa 1990) RTL1440 radio which broadcast the UK version of Radio Luxembourg at night. It couldn't have had many listeners back then because I responded to a phone-in quiz and got through. The prize was only a CD which I wasn't that fussy about but offspring liked it.

[treky]

Tutti frutti anyone?

[holmroad]

Tutti frutti anyone?

Wow yes mate, Italian soft p o r n!

[Mobley2]

Remember Tutti Frutti, fun program, you could watch it and not feel guilty.

regards mobley2

[holmroad]

They always seemed to be having a fun time dancing around - and giving us a good time watching!! lol!!

[Detlef]

Tutti Frutti - Hugo Egon Balder - chin, chin

Also with the highly appropriately named Titziana.

It had a short period of broadcasting in red/blue type 3D.

[maurice]

Yes I had them too!!! looked forward to Fri nights.
Did not have a clue what the rules were!!!

[Barney]

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lflfh-AkNoo

[Detlef]

Yes I had them too!!! looked forward to Fri nights.
Did not have a clue what the rules were!!!

The rules were quite simple:
Get an answer wrong = Get your kit off.
Get an answer right = Get your kit off.

[captainglassback]

Sorry to lower the tone of things....RED HOT DUTCH!!!!!!

[holmroad]

Sorry to lower the tone of things....RED HOT DUTCH!!!!!!

Hate to admit it, but I actually helped sell that for a very short time!! lol!!
PS: NO I'm PROUD to have!!!!

[stevethejack]

Red Hot Dutch - I had the sat system. Me and 2 mates shared the subscription costs and shared the cost of 100 VHS tapes. I recorded 2 nights on each tape, so 800 hours of filth between the 3 of us. HAPPY DAYS.

[holmroad]

Red Hot Dutch - I had the sat system. Me and 2 mates shared the subscription costs and shared the cost of 100 VHS tapes. I recorded 2 nights on each tape, so 800 hours of filth between the 3 of us. HAPPY DAYS.

Bet you flogged em for great profit Steve?lol!!

(Think there was another channel called 'After 12' too - plus Teleclub!)

[filmfan46]

Anybody remember S~y channel at 13 deg, the same position as Hotbird before the original Astra sat at 19 deg was launched. I loved its Paris to Dakar coverage. I think there was a channel on 1 deg or 5 deg called canal plus gul. To receive it you needed a big dish modified feed with a depoloriser.
Those were the top days of sat for me.

[minx]

Ha;such fond memories! There was loads of free filth if you looked. Remember PG on Sirius (5east) or my favourite at the time Alpengluhen on Astra 19 east? German softcore where all the male stars had moustaches and mullets and all the women had Margaret Thatcher type hairdos and clothes. All gone now......

[satfred]

Palco

[trotwood]

Spanish taquilla package

[JMH]

Spanish taquilla package
sadly missed by me & the wife:o10:

[BOOGIBEAR]

I remember tuti fruiti,,haa haa funny as hell,,does anybody know if it's still going ,and on which channel,,think it used to be on sat 1,,so long ago,,??:respect-applause-00

[holmroad]

Yes remember Tutti Fruiti mate - don't think anyone really understood what was going on there!! lol!!
There were also TWO 'Kiosks' - Kiosk on 1W and Kiosque (French) on 19E - up to date film channels!!

[Keano]

Showtime on 7.0w, I tried so hard to get it that I even forked out for a 240cm Channel Master dish, those of you who have been on here a while will remember my wifes reaction when she saw the dish ..lol
You could even see it on Google Earth :-)

[catseye]

Showtime on 7.0w, I tried so hard to get it that I even forked out for a 240cm Channel Master dish, those of you who have been on here a while will remember my wifes reaction when she saw the dish ..lol
You could even see it on Google Earth :-)

Yes I remember the episode well lol
If i remember right it took you months to bring her round (if at all!)

[brain]

Hi Guys,
Still on the memory lane bit then!! LMAO. My best memory of the D2mac days was just sitting down to watch a film and as it was about time the code changed - so a quick phone call [I am sure it was] gave the new one - insert quickly and only miss the opening credits!! 'Such fun' ! Cheers Brain

[Keano]

Yes I remember the episode well lol
If i remember right it took you months to bring her round (if at all!)

Yep its the only time in 21 years that I had to sleep on the sofa, 4 nights I spent on there.

In the end Showtime went, I think they moved to 26.0e only when beIN took over.

Between about 01:00 and 07:00 I could pull in every single transponder from 7.0e, I was even able to watch cricket on Ten Sports which was the weakest transponder but it was right on the border line.

[satwyn]

Yep its the only time in 21 years that I had to sleep on the sofa, 4 nights I spent on there.

In the end Showtime went, I think they moved to 26.0e only when beIN took over.

Between about 01:00 and 07:00 I could pull in every single transponder from 7.0e, I was even able to watch cricket on Ten Sports which was the weakest transponder but it was right on the border line. did you not paint the dish brown to try and hide it

[satfred]

palco italia ppv.

[KARABANGA]

Hi Wow what memories.. i have had a satellite system since 1982 and have seen so many changes over the years. I even had the square dish BSB system transmitting from the Marcopolo satellite at 1 west..only regret that i did not have a modern phone to take videos or photos at the time..thanks for bringing back my youth....

[catseye]

Back in the days when it really was a hobby

[3tv]

Hi Wow what memories.. i have had a satellite system since 1982 and have seen so many changes over the years. I even had the square dish BSB system transmitting from the Marcopolo satellite at 1 west..only regret that i did not have a modern phone to take videos or photos at the time..thanks for bringing back my youth....

Was there failing that got me into motorised. Tracsat converted Ferguson BSB d-mac recievers to d2mac., Well that and WOT Sat mag ;o)

[3tv]

you could change the onscreen message in the videocrypt hacked code with a hex editor which i though was cool back in the day :) especially as i would record filth on Eurotica for the lads at work and be able to leave them an on screen message, and make a few quid :)

[KARABANGA]

Hi Never understood why BSB went bust I know they only had 5 channels but they were way ahead of others at the time in quality etc Only D2Mac channels were nearly as good as BSB...I still have my BSB system in the loft ..does anyone know if it can pick up anything .. Regards

[catseye]

Hi Never understood why BSB went bust I know they only had 5 channels but they were way ahead of others at the time in quality etc Only D2Mac channels were nearly as good as BSB...I still have my BSB system in the loft ..does anyone know if it can pick up anything .. Regards

At the time the equipment & quality was years ahead of itself
But made it more expensive than Sky
Plus if my memory serves me right
The press (as in The Sun etc)
Hated anything the BBC were involved with
So pushed Sky (quantity over BSB quality)
Its fate was sealed
Especially as old Rupie owned The Sun & Sky at the time

Then Sky tied up deal with new Premier League in 91/92
The rest is history

[CokeAddict]

Hi Never understood why BSB went bust I know they only had 5 channels but they were way ahead of others at the time in quality etc Only D2Mac channels were nearly as good as BSB...I still have my BSB system in the loft ..does anyone know if it can pick up anything .. Regards

Sky launched around 13 months before BSB and had more channels (11 vs 5), BSB said they had around 750,000 customers vs Sky's 1.5 million.

BSB were paying around £2000 per hour for broadcasting vs Sky's £500 per hour.

BSB was a better quality product (DMAC vs PAL) but that meant higher equipment costs to the customer £370 vs £199 from Sky.

I also read that it cost BSB around £200 million for there 2 satellites (1 as a backup) which they had built for them vs Sky's £50 million for there 10 lease with SES / Astra with no backup.

BSB were broadcasting from Marco Polo House in London, vs Sky who setup in an industrial estate.

Ultimately both companies were loosing too much money so the 1 with the deeper pockets ended up winning.

[3tv]

Alan Sugar was on on Piers Morgan, He said the dishes cost a quid to make. :)

[afterlife]

Plus i always turned the dish to 43 west to get the golf feed direct. Plus remember updating the card to get the tyson/bruno fight.

[catseye]

Alan Sugar was on on Piers Morgan, He said the dishes cost a quid to make. :)

Back in 1991
A company called Star Trax I think?
Sent their reps around the estate I was living on at the time
Gave away free white dish & amstrad 200 boxes on the hope people subscribed
Anyway the estate looked like the one off Keeping Up Appearances

Virtually non subscribed
The company was supposed to come back & remove the equipment
But never did
So me & a friend of mine offered to remove these eyesores for free
Which were then sold off down the pub later on!

[oscar]

Anyone recall the Conax hack using a laptop,a serial port lead with a card attached and running off a floppy disc ?
I'm sure you all do but it was great fun watching the info scroll up the laptop screen -- an old Toshiba Satellite -- as the picture cleared.
Happy days .

[TonyO]

That was a good weez for quite a while, if you left the floppy disk in an old PC and it booted up everytime and gave the so called complete Scandinavian Dream Package on 1W, just seen as part of the good old days now !

[Satcat]

Just having a good sort out in my shed. I hate throwing thinks away thus all the stuff I've saved over the years. 3 TVs to go, an old pace analog stb, a mvision digital stb and a lot of old audio equipment.
There is also a phillips bsb receiver that I had converted by Transworld Satellite Systems to d2mac which I an reluctant to throw away, but it's not ever going to used again so it might as well go, maybe.

69081

[maurice]

God I had one of those Phillips bsb coverts to get the "Only for educational purpose" late night training films.
Good times them.:respect-055:

[3tv]

parallel port pic 16c84 programmers for stegens d2mac multimac hex code :)


early 90's when 16:9 tvs were launched. Philips subsidised the TV PLUS movie channel on 16e 16:9 and rgb d2mac goodness. Loved those days.

[Detlef]

I didn't discover Satdudez until doing a search on Seca Mediaguard and was surprised to find that it was hacked. So around the late 90s I had all the CanalPlus channels.

On a visit to the UK I programmed a Goldie for the On_Digital terrestrial digital TV which my lad was using as a FTA tuner. Again was surprised that it opened all the encrypted channels too. Good quality and widescreen 16 x 9. I was really sad that then the UK On_Digital was so low powered that it barely reached Calais let alone Roermond.

[catseye]

Just having a good sort out in my shed. I hate throwing thinks away thus all the stuff I've saved over the years. 3 TVs to go, an old pace analog stb, a mvision digital stb and a lot of old audio equipment.
There is also a phillips bsb receiver that I had converted by Transworld Satellite Systems to d2mac which I an reluctant to throw away, but it's not ever going to used again so it might as well go, maybe.

69081

Back in 1994
Whatsat Mag (remember that)
Publish a how to guide to convert these from Dmac to D2mac

It was a mag I kept for years until we had a clean out & mrs accidentally chucked it out

[catseye]

parallel port pic 16c84 programmers for stegens d2mac multimac hex code :)


early 90's when 16:9 tvs were launched. Philips subsidised the TV PLUS movie channel on 16e 16:9 and rgb d2mac goodness. Loved those days.

Picture was superb

Talk about progress
when HD first launched in the UK
Everyone thought WOW
Now its no better than than a DVD

[catseye]

I didn't discover Satdudez until doing a search on Seca Mediaguard and was surprised to find that it was hacked. So around the late 90s I had all the CanalPlus channels.

On a visit to the UK I programmed a Goldie for the On_Digital terrestrial digital TV which my lad was using as a FTA tuner. Again was surprised that it opened all the encrypted channels too. Good quality and widescreen 16 x 9. I was really sad that then the UK On_Digital was so low powered that it barely reached Calais let alone Roermond.

Think the first site I found was the one called The Cleric?

Followed by Steve's homepage & Toecutters Den

[gibson]

Toecutters Den and this Site were the best during the early years of satellite TV. Satpimps still brilliant, in fact the greatest! Can't say the same for Toecutters. What is going on with this forum, one big argument, it seems, between a moderator and the few who still sign in. The weather appears to be the sole topic of conversation after all the disagreements. Quiet sad really. Anyway,
Best Wishes to all Satpimpers and "Stay Safe" during this awful time. Hopefully all will be good soon.

Gibson.

[brain]

One of my best memories in those early days when one depended on a card programmed up - always every time one was just sitting down for the match or film the card failed about 5 mins before, and a quick dash to the PC to search known source and re-programme before the start!! Some time ago all this but fun. All best - Brain

[Aldo]

It most certainly kept one on their toes progaming all those old cards, sadly none of those old cards are of any use today.

[rickt]

I too remember the good old days ,scrambeling to the PC to download the latest keys and to program the cards and boy ,I had some cards .Spent a fortune on them and Cams over those years. Infact ,there all on **** at the minute. Been lying around for years and though I'd have a clear out. I'm in my 60's now and sadly dont have the time or money to spend on hobby's like I use too. My 2 x Spiderbox's HD9000 are dormant too ,dont think there is much use for them either. My memory's of the sat scene go back to the days of D2-MAC , wow it seems like a lifetime away now.

[mrfire]

h==ps://www.satellitemuseum.com/
tears throwing my 3 sct monterays away

[Friendly-Face]

Nice to see many of the guys from the early days :-)

I started back in 1990 with a 1.20 cm dish and a Protec receiver, I rememberer very well how so few channels was on the satellites and the satellites was not as easy as today to find

everything was almost for free back on those days. I was so hucked up with some channels that showed horse racing.

was cool to cheek the net for keys sometime back when we still had dialup lines for internet.


cheers
FF

[january_king]

This thread reminded me of something and it only re-surfaced in the grey cells last night. That was the whole Thoic and Lee Gibling thing. Quite a story in itself!