Slight band of sparklies there, either an improperly aligned dish, something in the way of the dish i.e. a tree, bad weather reception, too small a dish size being used i.e. a 60cm dish being used in Northern England Northern Ireland Scotland northern parts of the Republic Of Eire and North Wales (these areas was prone to annoying PAL sparklies on a 60cm dish), and if you used an 80cm dish for Astra on decent brand satellite receivers (NOT the crappy sparklie hissy Amstrads which sparklied the pix in ANY WEATHER) in the areas I mentioned, you got a much better standard of reception, or the use of a crappy Amstrad SRX 100 200 or SRD 400 receiver which even gave sparklies in fine weather.
@@VAX1970 The Amstrad Astra Satellite Receivers had appalling weak signal sensitivity giving sparklies on several Astra channels at all times, they had a very temperamental automatic frequency control circuit which would drift off tune regularly, and Amstrad used a poor sound-alike noise reduction circuit and not a true Wegener Panda 1 circuit to avoid royalty payments to Wegener Communications Inc. for the licensing and use of their official noise reduction circuitry, and this was poor, which didn't eliminate hiss and background noise from Astra's Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction encoded analogue mono and stereo 7.02 - 8.28 MHz audio subcarrier frequencies sounding very flat, unpleasant and extremely hissy on MTV Europe VH1 The History Channel Sci-Fi Channel Lifestyle Sky News The Children's Channel Sky Sports The Movie Channel Sky One UK Gold Screensport Eurosport Sky Movies Sky Movies Gold Nickelodeon UK The Comedy Channel The Disney Channel CNN TNT Cartoon Network UK Living Bravo Discovery Channel CMT Europe JSTV and the many other foreign language channels too plus the extra radio stations each channel carried also sounded hissy.
@@anthonyperkins7556 It didn't last long it kept overheating, water got in the LNB and shorted it out, upgraded to a Grundig, that was great, lasted years.
@@VAX1970 The Amstrads were very poorly made, even Sir Alan Sugar even admitted they merely cost pennies to make and price inflated to £199.99 with 60cm dish after import duty, shipping tax and VAT. The better receivers of the time were NEC Pace Nokia and other decent brands which were much better performers with much better sound, better vision and better reliability.
If I remember correctly, the first movie to be scrambled was Robocop.
Was it really, would love to see some footage of that happening haha !
@David Mander no it isn't. All DVDs and BluRays are encrypted.
Yes it was Robocop. I remember it well
Yeh it was advertised heavily too
Remember the D2 Mac decoders? My uncle had one :)
Wow! I wish time machines was real so I can see the ad
Sky Movies RIP 🇬🇧📺
Slight band of sparklies there, either
an improperly aligned dish,
something in the way of the dish i.e. a tree,
bad weather reception,
too small a dish size being used i.e. a 60cm dish being used in Northern England Northern Ireland Scotland northern parts of the Republic Of Eire and North Wales (these areas was prone to annoying PAL sparklies on a 60cm dish),
and if you used an 80cm dish for Astra on decent brand satellite receivers (NOT the crappy sparklie hissy Amstrads which sparklied the pix in ANY WEATHER) in the areas I mentioned, you got a much better standard of reception,
or the use of a crappy Amstrad SRX 100 200 or SRD 400 receiver which even gave sparklies in fine weather.
God I bet you're boring.
Those Amstrad receivers were plagued with Sparklies
@@VAX1970 The Amstrad Astra Satellite Receivers had appalling weak signal sensitivity giving sparklies on several Astra channels at all times,
they had a very temperamental automatic frequency control circuit which would drift off tune regularly,
and Amstrad used a poor sound-alike noise reduction circuit and not a true Wegener Panda 1 circuit to avoid royalty payments to Wegener Communications Inc. for the licensing and use of their official noise reduction circuitry, and this was poor, which didn't eliminate hiss and background noise from Astra's Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction encoded analogue mono and stereo 7.02 - 8.28 MHz audio subcarrier frequencies sounding very flat, unpleasant and extremely hissy on MTV Europe VH1 The History Channel Sci-Fi Channel Lifestyle Sky News The Children's Channel Sky Sports The Movie Channel Sky One UK Gold Screensport Eurosport Sky Movies Sky Movies Gold Nickelodeon UK The Comedy Channel The Disney Channel CNN TNT Cartoon Network UK Living Bravo Discovery Channel CMT Europe JSTV and the many other foreign language channels too plus the extra radio stations each channel carried also sounded hissy.
@@anthonyperkins7556 It didn't last long it kept overheating, water got in the LNB and shorted it out, upgraded to a Grundig, that was great, lasted years.
@@VAX1970 The Amstrads were very poorly made, even Sir Alan Sugar even admitted they merely cost pennies to make and price inflated to £199.99 with 60cm dish after import duty, shipping tax and VAT.
The better receivers of the time were NEC Pace Nokia and other decent brands which were much better performers with much better sound, better vision and better reliability.
If this came into New Zealand then Sky TV that we know today isn't the same than it used to be
NZ didn’t have what we had in 1989 UK though.
Yeah, for me to get access it's important to buy the lock. The key I can understand, but you want me to buy the lock too?
Astra = Very European.
I had astra
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