[pakokelso93]

Old Sky days were great! loved having RTL on for the F1 Practices.

[djonshore]

Originally Posted by omnidirectional

I remember all that well! I loved the Teleclub Ident (YouTube)

The Spanish Canal+ package consisted of Cinemania, Documania, Cine Classics, kid's channel Minimax, and later Sportmania which followed Minimax and had highlights of UK and world football. They had occasional freeview slots.

I remember the German version of VH1 was encrypted by any Videocrypt decoder (all Sky boxes) to prevent UK viewing, but could easily be decrypted on most boxes by storing the channel slightly off frequency or using some sort of scart trick which I can't remember anymore.

Yeah I remember that trick with VH-1 Germany.

[Matt_1979]

Originally Posted by djonshore

I remember the Games Mistress on Channel 4's Games Master. She was introduced to the games programme after Patrick Moore left the programme as the Games Master. I never recall a Games Mistress in Games World.

I remember The Children's Channel (TCC) use to have Super Mario Challenge

Patrick Moore never left Games Master. The Games Mistress was in Games World and she was indeed played by Jet from Gladiators. Games World must have been one of the first (if not the first) series David Walliams did (and I seem to remember that in his earlier episodes he was credited as David Williams.

UK Gold was also very good in its early days (although there were one or two quite naff and very dated old comedies on there). I remember UK Gold showing Rentaghost right from the beginning, including episodes I had never heard of before (and I had no idea Rentaghost ran for so long).

Sky One didn't always show the best - although they had some good shows, they also had that god-awful Punky Brewster Did anyone else see that show...

[zippydoodah]

Originally Posted by Matt_1979

Sky One didn't always show the best - although they had some good shows, they also had that god-awful Punky Brewster Did anyone else see that show...

Oh I loved that show! Although I use to watch it on ITV during the late 80s. I always wanted Sky when I was younger in my early teens of the early 90s but Sky during that time was seen as for people who had the disposal income or the well off. (or show offs!)

[barnacle]

Originally Posted by djonshore

Yeah I remember that trick with VH-1 Germany.

I found my old sky analogue box the other day and wondered why there was a blank scart lead with a diode shorting some of the pins in the back.

[djonshore]

Originally Posted by PhilH36

As I recall that worked by transmitting the channel in the clear but with the encryption flag set, so the decoder would attempt to decode it which resulted in it scrambling the picture. On some makes of box you could actually turn off the decoder, I can't remember how the scart trick worked either.
Also when 1D went up the frequencies it used were out of the tuning range of some receivers, so you had a frequency extender box which plugged into the receiver in order to pick up the 1D channels.

Yeah I remember the small switch box. You could either switch from between 1D or 1C (I think) by doing it manual by flicking a metal switch or by remote. By switching the Sky box on and off.

I think Sky Movies Gold and Sky Sports 3 were on the 1D and I think to get Sky Movies Gold you needed to go to UK Gold and then switch to 1D.

Also 1D gave you an extra 16 channels to the existing 32 channels, if I remember correctly?

[Captain Stable]

The DJ Kat Show, with Rod Hull's daughter!

[YaffiYuk]

Originally Posted by Captain Stable

The DJ Kat Show, with Rod Hull's daughter!

Aaah! You beat me to it! I used to love that show when I was a kid

[markssmith]

Originally Posted by djonshore

Yeah I remember the small switch box. You could either switch from between 1D or 1C (I think) by doing it manual by flicking a metal switch or by remote. ....Also 1D gave you an extra 16 channels to the existing 32 channels, if I remember correctly?

Ahh yes the Global ADX box that we used to fit to our rental satellite systems to get the extra 16 channels to bring the total to 48. Those were the days!

[PhilH36]

There were already 48 channels on Astras 1A, B and C, the extender box picked up the 1D frequencies and bought the number of channels up to 64.

[scorpiofootiema]

Saturday January 27 1990 is a day I'll never forget,as analogue satelite TV arrived in our house,and the shock of watching on Sat1 Nachbarn,the German dub of Neighbours-guten tag,cobber!

[swills]

No one has mentioned FLIMNET of course time moves on, encryption gets better, sadly and when Sky moved from 19 to 28 and into digital, that was that for most, and with digital more channels, but quality is in freefall now, too many channels not enough product to fill them all.

I still get 19.2 and also 23.5. but really miss the Dutch channels, and can't afford what some 'dealers' want in the UK for a smart card and don't know anyone in Benelux to get me one

[exlordlucan]

Originally Posted by swills

No one has mentioned FLIMNET

That's probably because it doesn't exist


Going back to the early days I remember a tits n bums film being shown daytime on German tv and the best thing is that the shop I worked at had all the tvs tuned to the same picture

[swills]

But it did do! as did / does Teleclub and TV100 :-)

[markssmith]

Originally Posted by PhilH36

There were already 48 channels on Astras 1A, B and C, the extender box picked up the 1D frequencies and bought the number of channels up to 64.

It's been a long Friday lunch for me! As you said 1D made the total to 64 but I think it was one of the movie channels that moved there that prompted a rush on the Global ADX that they ran out at the manufacturer!

[joshua_welby]

I liked watching the Foreign channels on Sky Analogue when it was at 19°E

[PhilH36]

I have to laugh at the irony of the king of (mis)information promoting the commonly held misconception that the foreign channels were 'on Sky'! They weren't,rather they were broadcast from the same satellite as the Sky channels.

[spiney2]

.... when sky analogue started, the eu directive on MAC for DBS meant it was illegal !

[RickyBarby]

Sky started back on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Super Station become SKY Channel on the 1st on January 1984.

[jpsr]

Strange. I was only thinking of euro sat tv in the 90's and how much i miss it, then come on here and see this thread.

I got into sat tv in 97, but was into how cable tv and how it worked and loved visiting my local cable tv operators headend just down the road from me, seeing all those 1.2 channel master dishes got me hooked along with my love for trying to receice mtv europe after it was replaced with mtv uk in the same year.

I still love sat tv, have my dream setup now, but miss my pace mss 100, mss 300 and my phillips d2 mac decoder, they were the days, mtv europe ruled, i also loved anything european like eurosport, tv 1000, tnt. 1 west was my favourite spot. How things have changed since then.

There are just to many channels showing the same shit over and over again these days.

[Neil C]

Ahh memories.(sniff) There seemed to be more choice with less channels if you get my drift.

[exlordlucan]

Originally Posted by swills

But it did do! as did / does Teleclub and TV100 :-)

Nah that was FILMNET and not FLIMNET

[RickyBarby]

This is The DJ Kat Show a D & a J & a Kat with a K.

DJ KAT 1985

DJ KAT 1992

[LiamTheGreat]

In the late 90's, the German music channel: viva Zwei (2) was by far and away the best music channel I've seen. Think of it as a counterpart to MTV2, in which rock music was the focus. But it also had shows dedicated to rap, indie and dance. Which had a better variety of songs than all the MTV channels combined. And the presenters were bilingual so they interviewed UK and American acts in English. Including any English documentaries, which would be subtitled, not dubbed, so you could watch them. Scuzz, even at it's peak is a poor relation, by comparrison

[Neil C]

Originally Posted by djonshore

Yeah I remember the small switch box. You could either switch from between 1D or 1C (I think) by doing it manual by flicking a metal switch or by remote. By switching the Sky box on and off.

I think Sky Movies Gold and Sky Sports 3 were on the 1D and I think to get Sky Movies Gold you needed to go to UK Gold and then switch to 1D.

Also 1D gave you an extra 16 channels to the existing 32 channels, if I remember correctly?

I had that box, caused no end of trouble