C-Band satellite channel tuning recording 1993 - Satcom, Spacenet
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- In 1993 I had my friend with a satellite record some episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for me on VHS. This is a recording of somebody changing channels on a C-Band satellite reciever after the show was done. I figured it might have some historical significance to somebody. I trimmed some of the longer clips in between channel changes.
Just stumbled across this gem💎
Certainly brings back very fond memories!
I grew up basically in the middle of nowhere North Carolina and deep in the woods. No neighbors or anything of that sort so I had no friends to meet up with and play with after school. We couldn't get cable because service wasn't available in our area. Then, in January of 92, I came home from school and immediately spotted a huge satellite posted up in our front yard! I still remember seeing it for the first time. As soon as I went inside, my mom and dad were sitting in the living room with big grins on their faces and said surprise! It got even better once my mom explained to me that it was a satellite system with a built-in descrambler and that we could now watch wrestling pay per views and that we no longer had to rent movies anymore. There was even one channel that didn't have a name/station identification but showed movies that were currently released in theaters nationwide.
It would have a clock or timestamp displayed at the bottom to record the runtime(im assuming that's what that was) but we could see and hear everything with no issues. Eddie Murphy's Boomerang was the first movie I watched on that channel. It repeated the same movie 24/7 but would change on average of every 5 to 7 days. We watched so many movies at home and would even invite family members, friends of the family, and some of my friends from school over to watch new movies being released in theaters and pay per views...usually wrestling and music concerts.
The Fugitive was the last movie we watched on that channel before it mysteriously vanished off air and never returned.
Then our descrambler started getting "hit" as it was called and most premium stations would be muted with no sound so we had to upgrade our descrambler and then we would have to get a sheet of codes to enter for each channel every other week to bring back the sound for those channels. Then, in February of 97 we had to move and we got cable at our new place and that was the end of my satellite experience.
For someone like myself who lived and grew up in an area that I did, having Satellite television meant everything! Those were some of the best years of my life! Thanks for triggering the stroll down memory lane!
Cool story
I wish I had a time machine to live those experiences.
I was born in 93, in Central America, so Cable TV was the last thing on the list.
"Conveniently", Analog CATV security ended up when the one who was paying decided to "split" the bill.
My first memory of watching CATV is very vague, I was only 3 back then. My vivid memories come from the 00s and forth when my parents got a mortgage in a suburb. They contracted Digital CATV. The splitter era in this corner was gone.
1/3 of my childhood remembrances are thanks to what some beavies dare to call "The idiot box".
Internet was in diapers back then. Blockbuster was our Netflix. I still have my VHS that I haven't turned on since like 2008. Did I say I want a time machine?
Even today I wanna feel how is an American/Canadian Christmas because of Cartoon Network 😂😂
I remember that channel that aired The Fugitive when it was a new release! 😮 It was even in widescreen, right??? We didn't realize that we were experiencing the Golden Age of home television back then. 😢 C-Band Satellite was just something so amazing.
I was the only kid I knew with an old school dish like this growing up. I have fond memories of switching satellites to get to mtv or hbo. Every Saturday my dad my sister and I watched the hbo premiere, great great memories.
This video is awesome. That time left display was so similar to what I had as a kid on Rural Cable, Scientific Instruments CBand receiver. Sadly it was fixed to Galaxy 19. Mine could only show basic info like that too. Current program, time left, and next program. God I miss those days.
This is epic. Thank you. I remember my parents having the Houston Tracker V receiver back in the 90s.
More C Band satellite videos please!
Lousy video processing was the plague of most consumer grade C-Band receivers. I remember a bright red color being all sparkly and weird. Toshiba had an awesome receiver with S-Video that was the best consumer unit available for analog c-band. It didn't have that weird color distortion. (expensive AF though) There might have been a way to fix it, but we never figured it out. Toshiba for the win.
First time I've seen the N1 channel in ages.
I miss all the dirty dirty stuff I got to grow up with from that channel.
*ANYTHING* N1 related is of huge interest to me also. 🤩 Haha, those late night bikini contests and constant 1-900 sex chat lines *REALLY* pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable to broadcast. 🤭 There are some other N1 videos here on UA-cam, but they're few and far between. 😭 They also showed violent/adult anime like Vampire Hunter D, Wicked City, Fist Of The Northstar, etc. They were digitally censored to hide the most gruesome nudity and gore, but who cared??? Anime back then was truly a novelty and something special. 😈
@@SelfRighteousNewAgeLightWorker Odd, I don't remember anything of it being censored at all. The first "gore" anime I watched on it was Crying freemen and I distantly remember him killing a dood by driving his head in to the street well his nude girl friend "hawt lady with the tiger tat on her back" was just standing there lookin all hot and nude. I remember watching the OG dirty pair, though that was tame for what it was. I seen some other anime with battle suits and psychic powers and something about tower of babel in it. It had tons of gore and nudity in it, I still have yet to refind that anime to know what was up with it.
On days I skipped school, I think it also had softcore porn (with sound and not music) and other activities like lady mudwrestling.
I mainly spent time with the after midnight line up mostly though cuz I would remember swapping over to my local station to watch sailor moon before getting ready for school and just playing games after school. It was really before I was ever in to filth/gore because I was still in elementary school.
If I remember right, this was around 96ish?
They also spammed ads about how "This is a paid for satellite channel service that if you are stealing, could cost you a fine!" yet came in just fine over UHF channel 76 or 79 using rabbit ears on an old studio tv with stupid high UHF range.
Was in portland oregon during that time, unsure if that has anything to do with picking it up or not or if they changed the channel content.
@@Xanthro2Thanks for sharing all that with me! 😈 I wasn't able to watch N1 whenever I wanted to, because my parents blocked it. 😭 I was able to watch it again when F1 became C1, or when my Dad bought a new satellite receiver. I remember seeing Crying Freeman with digital censoring, and the same was true for Twilight Of The Cockroaches (the part when the cockroach leader is impaled on the dartboard). It's amazing to me that the channel only aired for 5 years!!! It would be great if those of us who fondly remember N1 formed a group, dedicated to preserving whatever footage can be found of the channel. I remember another free sleazy channel existing on S-something… it showed softcore sex movies and segments of a girl running around a park, occasionally flashing the cameraman. 😜 I don't remember the name anymore, but sometimes an advisory would come on the screen, stating that the channel's content wasn't for everyone. Does any of that ring a bell? I think N1 had advisories like that also, just before their nighttime programming would begin.
Back to anime… N1, the Sci-Fi Channel, IFC and maybe Bravo were the only channels that consistently aired titles from Central Park Media and Streamline Pictures, from what I remember. That's back when anime was something unknown and forbidden!!! 😈
@@SelfRighteousNewAgeLightWorker nah, i dont remember girl flashin cam, dont remember but maybe 2 shows during the day.
anime on sci-fi was great, how i came across the "US Manga" brand of anime to later watch MD Gist and the like.
I used to watch the international channel as well for uncensored anime, where i watched tenchimuyo ;)
Old tv.... and come to think of it, old internet, was so much better back then...
I wish they would stop counting a single person as 10-20k so we could have good offencive tv/net back.
Back when people understood to just change the channel/log off.
OMG paying for the codes for each satellite was hell expensive, but it was worth it.
And that’s just the descrambler
Turn the game on 30 minutes early so we can at least catch the end of the first quarter.
More C-Band videos please.
Does anyone know theusic that used to get played as filler before the feed would start early in the morning? It might have been Canadian, but it definitely wasn't their national anthem.
1:37 Who is that guy? He sounds weird af.
Gilbert Gottfried
@@boojix2 ty dude
Good ole Gilbert! Gotta talk though your nose. lol
This is perfect for when you pull the old redo the house so mom thinks its 1993 trick. its an expensive prank and sort of cruel as mom has Alzheimers
المزيد من الفيديوات احسن مرحلة في حياتي اكتشاف ساتليت
2:40 - 3:00 & 5:21 - 5:44 is that ... Don Ameche? It, at least, kinda sounds like him, maybe I'm being dopey though.