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Channels that you didn't have and couldn't watch but you cou
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:55 pm
by Clarence
Hey remember when with cable, if you didn't have some channels you still had access to them, but they had wavy lines over them and stuff? Like you could still hear the audio but the picture was all messed up cause it's not part of whatever cable package you had.
Back in the 90s or whatever
When I was a kid there was some stuff I wanted to see so bad smurf it I watched it anyway. I had seizures.
Tell me your story
-- remember this shazam! right here, it's wack if you never got to experience this:
Re: Channels that you didn't have and couldn't watch but you cou
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:50 pm
by chex
The scrambled porn channels played classical music during the day.
Re: Channels that you didn't have and couldn't watch but you cou
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:07 pm
by Wesley
Before the channels were scrambled, they were just broadcast at a frequency not on the UHF or VHF spectrum. if you held the knob between 2 and 3, you could sometimes get it. We watched a whole movie that way back in 1982.
Later they became scrambled. Holding the knob no longer gave us the premium stuff. However, some of the earlier TOCOM converter boxes wold show you a split second of whatever channel you flipped to before scrambling it, so you could get half a second of a car chase or titties or whatever before the picture went all whacky.
The sound was usually still there, though.
Now, Comcast is so high-tech that there are actually two digital tuners in each converter box. If you don't have the premium channels, they send a signal to turn off one of the tuners and those channels don't even show up on your TV, menus or anything. Crazy.
Also, watch this skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-BZj8fB2A