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Sky TV.
| geek_1830 |
March 14, 2010, 12:49 am |
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#1 | | I have a tv before lcd/plasma era, and was able to programme the basic sky channels into it, which was just scrambled, but you could hear it like a radio. Now it has all been wiped out and channels are just like original (before programming). Is it because of going digital and no more analogue? . Only noticed it last few days. | |
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| geek_sighkick |
March 14, 2010, 1:24 am |
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#2 | | Sky TV have apparently only got about 100 customers still receiving UHF Sky transmissions and I heard that they were switching it off. I can't remember exactly when that was to be, but they could have already done it. |
| geek_spyware |
March 14, 2010, 7:49 am |
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#3 | | Sky analog was shutdown on March 10, was only such analog videocrypt system still running anywhere. Press release on Sky's website. |
| geek_murph2068594 |
March 14, 2010, 10:12 am |
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#4 | Yep, a piece of nz transmission history is over.
Thanks for the good times Sky, i especially like it on the odd weekend when you shut down the scrambling on sky movies to do maintenance and i could watch "Cliffhanger", "Terminator 2" (pan-and scan- no widescreen then) and other movies for free.
Now those uhf channels have gone, as sky have shifted all their customers over to the digital platform. |
| geek_pcmaster |
March 14, 2010, 10:33 am |
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#5 | | aww no more getting it free via a tv tuner card either LOL |
| geek_johnf_456 |
March 14, 2010, 8:39 pm |
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#6 | True dat^^
Plenty of other ways to get media. lol |
| geek_1830 |
March 14, 2010, 10:45 pm |
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#7 | Thanks to all who took time to reply... ... .
yes an end of era, thats called progress.
cheers |
| geek_richms |
March 15, 2010, 6:26 pm |
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#8 | | Freed up those channels so I can move my modulators around and get more channels of stuff thru the house which has made me happy. |
| geek_murph2068594 |
March 16, 2010, 9:50 pm |
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#9 | Question: Can you manually tune in the scrambled sky digital signal with a freeview tuner?
This is using the satelite dish standard def freeview tuner - not the hd freeview, because as you know that is using a uhf aerial. |
| geek_spyware |
March 16, 2010, 10:02 pm |
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#10 | | Any DVB-S tuner will tune Sky's muxes, all encrypted though so you can't actually hear or see anything. | |
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