This was actually quite historically significant, as it marked the first set of channels to be removed from the Sky Analogue service. By then, digital upgrades were no brainers, especially for the price. Sky also didn’t use that logo for too long, maybe around 6 months.
@@Secret19977 Shortly before the launch of Sky Digital, Sky announced that a full analogue service would continue to run for "many years to come". They lied.
Ok, I'm going to interpret what the people behind this message were thinking: Person 1: Ok, so we're shutting down the analog service for FilmFour. How do we tell everyone. Person 2: A simple cutoff and message at midnight? Person 1: Nah, too simple. Come on, give it some jazz! Person 3: Have the announcer give a formal goodbye? Person 1: Ok, a bit bland but I l think that could work. Person 4: Scare people shitless in the dead of night? It would get us more coverage because people would gossip about it more! Person 1: That idea sounds terr- Director: Perfect! Person 1: Bollocks.
CALL NOW AT THE SECRET NUMBER YOU CAN FIND ON THE PASSWORD PROTECTED PART OF OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO FIND A SAFE PLACE TO HIDE IF BASEMENTS ARE NOT AN OPTION.
Do not leave your shelter for 14 days, do not use the telephone, the telephone lines shall be kept open for emergency use only, ensure you have 14 days of food and water and a battery powered radio, seek shelter in the inner most room of your refuge, use perishable foods first as tinned foods last longer, of not look at the blast as it may cause temporary or permenant blindness, the explosion may also cause hearing loss, normal programming has been suspended, power may be lost at any given moment, if so, tune to ***. ** on the AM band Etc etc Yeah I've been watching those since 2012
If I woke up to this or this happened to me in the middle of the night when I was the age of the shutoff, only for it to go pure black in the room after, I'd scream and cry
The slightly sparklie testcard indicates either a slight transmission power reduction or could have been too small a dish used i.e. a 60cm dish in Northern England or it could have been that the dish was out of alignment.
*AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILMFOUR HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING ITS DIGITAL SERVICES.*
*_TO RECEIVE SKY DIGITAL, YOU'LL NEED TO REPLACE YOUR CURRENT DISH AND BOX WITH A NEW DIGITAL DISH AND BOX WHICH IS FREE WITH SKY'S OFFER. ALL YOU'LL PAY FOR IS THE £40 STANDARD INSTALLATION COST_*
UK cable TV system operators merely put up a large dish aimed at Astra 2 on their outdoor cable head reception end and added a Skydigital receiver and card to their cable head end equipment, in order to carry on relaying the FilmFour service to their subscribers. In analogue cable systems, unless the cableco had decent fibre optic carriage and reception equipment, the quality was fuzzy with buzzy and / or hissy mono analogue sound. On better cable TV networks, the pictures would be better with one of two options for stereo sound, ie relayed via FM stereo radio frequencies which requires a rather cumbersome arrangement of hooking up your hi-fi system antenna socket to the cable and tuning FilmFour in on an FM frequency or if you were really lucky, the digital stereo sound from Skydigital (FilmFour never used Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 surround sound at the time) would be encoded to NICAM Digital Stereo and your NICAM Stereo TV and NICAM Stereo VCR would pick it up in NICAM format.
This was from 12 yrs ago. Analogue and dgital transponders can coexist as long as htey are on different transponders. Allsdso receiver needs to support it
@@StefanoYLRP analogue signals do not carry the same kind of quality as digital (at least, nowhere near as easily) and it costs money and time to maintain two sets of systems where one of the services is of a much lower quality
And getting the absolute shit scared out of you. If that happened at night, I would punch my TV so hard my fingers will be covered in cuts and wounds from the glass afterwards.
Well...they did partially in 2009, but only for full power stations. They shut down all remaining low-power stations in the continental US and Hawaii on July 13, 2021. Alaska soon followed with their 15 low power repeater stations on January 10, 2022, citing the end of analogue broadcasts in the US.
This was UK analogue *satellite* closing down in 2000. Analogue over-the air TV in the UK didn't close down until 2007 to 2012 depending on the region.
If I Existed That Day, I Will Be Sleeping In My Bed And All Of Sudden “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS ONLY” I Will Get A Jumpscare And Run Outside As Fast As I Can
Roses are red Clowns are from circuses _AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILM 4 HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING IT’S DIGITAL SERVICES_
‘’Cable TV customers are not affected and do not need to change their cable equipment.” Luckily that I got cable tv equipment! I born on 1992 January 12.
If this came in 2022, I would scream runaway tell my mother on FaceTime run to my mother‘s house. If she’s not ringing knock on her door stand my key card she doesn’t care she doesn’t answer. I took her to my house while she was sleeping, she woke up at the middle of night. She was so scared that she would scream really loud at the middle of the night then I call my brother to help me and then he said no it’s just an a lot stupid TV and then I scream really hard run out of the house. I’ll leave for the next door neighbour
@Tegan Coombes idk but the fact that the channel was supposedly trash (again I’m American so I wouldn’t know) no one would expect or even hope for the channel to come back. Quiet the opposite people will hope that the channel will stay dead especially since Carlton was a pretty trash brand in general (again, I ain’t British) since it has caused the end of many ITV regional stations like Thames and TV AM which were supposedly great channels and the closures of Thames and TV AM were considered the fall of ITV and even tho the trademark for Carlton is still there people still want it gone as revenge for the end of Thames and TV AM
I guess Filmfour didn't have any people who were watching for analog + They want to save money saur that is why they shut down Plus they werent as big as BBC 1 and 2, BBC were big asf (in terms of money) saur they could just be able to Broadcast analog tv till 2012! But the same happened with filmfour and itv Digital saur that is why
I have the Logobook, published by Ludvouic (I think that’s how you spell it.) Houplain, creator of Logorama. Guess what I found? No clue? The answer was the channel that switched on 31/3/2000, Film4.
![G4TV Goes Off The Air (12-31-14) [DVR Recording]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DIaPvsrUG8w/mqdefault.jpg)
Me at 6am:
My sleep paralysis demons: Important announcement for analogue satellite customers only
the horror
But just imagine if that was at the highest volume
I put it at high volume and my ears are NOT blessed :)
no they're both me
This was actually quite historically significant, as it marked the first set of channels to be removed from the Sky Analogue service. By then, digital upgrades were no brainers, especially for the price. Sky also didn’t use that logo for too long, maybe around 6 months.
Would have thought 2000 was a bit early for channels to move from analogue
@@Secret19977 so was 2001, but look at Sky analog (yes, I said analog cuz I’m from America)
That logo could’ve been around when they had their own TiVo boxes.
@@Secret19977 Shortly before the launch of Sky Digital, Sky announced that a full analogue service would continue to run for "many years to come". They lied.
Ok, I'm going to interpret what the people behind this message were thinking:
Person 1: Ok, so we're shutting down the analog service for FilmFour. How do we tell everyone.
Person 2: A simple cutoff and message at midnight?
Person 1: Nah, too simple. Come on, give it some jazz!
Person 3: Have the announcer give a formal goodbye?
Person 1: Ok, a bit bland but I l think that could work.
Person 4: Scare people shitless in the dead of night? It would get us more coverage because people would gossip about it more!
Person 1: That idea sounds terr-
Director: Perfect!
Person 1: Bollocks.
“Bollocks.” -Person 1, 30th March 2000
Person 5: how about we play one more Time by Daft Punk’s before the channel shuts down (I am referencing the goTV shutdown)
Viewers: OH BLIMEY FUCK!
@@andyewing4143sounds good lol
@@nutoutpizzadthehut i think itd be like "oh ffs i have to ring sky tomorrow"
Imagine vibing to those tunes while your channel gets booted off your tv.
That tune is hella catchy.
It's like an emergency broadcast announcement
IF YOU ARE A CABLE SATELLITE SUBSCRIBER, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY. *THEY* WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU.
CALL NOW AT THE SECRET NUMBER YOU CAN FIND ON THE PASSWORD PROTECTED PART OF OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO FIND A SAFE PLACE TO HIDE IF BASEMENTS ARE NOT AN OPTION.
Do not leave your shelter for 14 days, do not use the telephone, the telephone lines shall be kept open for emergency use only, ensure you have 14 days of food and water and a battery powered radio, seek shelter in the inner most room of your refuge, use perishable foods first as tinned foods last longer, of not look at the blast as it may cause temporary or permenant blindness, the explosion may also cause hearing loss, normal programming has been suspended, power may be lost at any given moment, if so, tune to ***. ** on the AM band
Etc etc
Yeah I've been watching those since 2012
Jay Cartwright omg yeah!
ya and it's the end of the world for the analog
If I woke up to this or this happened to me in the middle of the night when I was the age of the shutoff, only for it to go pure black in the room after, I'd scream and cry
Same.
I think it because of it red spinning loop background for some reason its scary
worse than the ps2 red screen
@@koiyunenah Bro, that RSOD is scarier than exams
@@TheBestFriendscoltdbeing stuck in the towers on the 11th is scarier than both
The slightly sparklie testcard indicates either a slight transmission power reduction or could have been too small a dish used i.e. a 60cm dish in Northern England or it could have been that the dish was out of alignment.
Or it could have been absolutely pissing it down.
It looks as though the shutdown information was aired in a loop hence the FilmFour logo and black screen before the information
They treated this like a zombie apocalypse was about to start
Literally. They say it like *[WARNING]*
…
*_IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS ONLY_*
*_AS AT 6AM ON THE 31ST OF MARCH 2000 FILMFOUR WILL NO LONGER BE TRANSMITTING THROUGH ANALOG SATELLITE_*
*_THIS WILL NOT AFFECT CABLE TV CUSTOMERS_*
*_AS MOST ANALOGUE SATTELITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATTELITE SERVICE_*
*AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILMFOUR HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING ITS DIGITAL SERVICES.*
*_TO RECEIVE SKY DIGITAL, YOU'LL NEED TO REPLACE YOUR CURRENT DISH AND BOX WITH A NEW DIGITAL DISH AND BOX WHICH IS FREE WITH SKY'S OFFER. ALL YOU'LL PAY FOR IS THE £40 STANDARD INSTALLATION COST_*
*For some reason this gives me nightmares....*
me too
Fuzzycola same
ya
Me too
Me too
UK cable TV system operators merely put up a large dish aimed at Astra 2 on their outdoor cable head reception end and added a Skydigital receiver and card to their cable head end equipment, in order to carry on relaying the FilmFour service to their subscribers.
In analogue cable systems, unless the cableco had decent fibre optic carriage and reception equipment, the quality was fuzzy with buzzy and / or hissy mono analogue sound.
On better cable TV networks, the pictures would be better with one of two options for stereo sound, ie relayed via FM stereo radio frequencies which requires a rather cumbersome arrangement of hooking up your hi-fi system antenna socket to the cable and tuning FilmFour in on an FM frequency or if you were really lucky, the digital stereo sound from Skydigital (FilmFour never used Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 surround sound at the time) would be encoded to NICAM Digital Stereo and your NICAM Stereo TV and NICAM Stereo VCR would pick it up in NICAM format.
This sounds like an announcement for the world ending
2000? Christ for the UK they did it very early
The biggest networks did it about a decade later in the UK
Nah, 2012 uk switched started the main switchover in 2007
Sky Analog shutoff in 2001 so…..
This was Analogue Satellite. It was Analogue Terrestrial that was switched off a decade later.
Well, yes, of course, on Astra 1 there are currently 38 TV channels that are transmitted analog (PAL, free to air). These are mostly German channels.
0:54 You can replace your current dish and box by destroying it! 😂😂
LMAO 🤣
This was from 12 yrs ago. Analogue and dgital transponders can coexist as long as htey are on different transponders. Allsdso receiver needs to support it
do are they still have shut down?
@@p0werm3lon yes i think
Why can’t They just keep it for 50 years?
@@StefanoYLRP analogue signals do not carry the same kind of quality as digital (at least, nowhere near as easily) and it costs money and time to maintain two sets of systems where one of the services is of a much lower quality
This is from March 30 2000 I guess
*1.000.000% Reasons that causes me nightmares.. Don't view this video with Full sound, headset, and if you view this video youself*
and don't wiew in full screen.
@@und4287 and don't view it with the lights off at 2 in the morning.
Yall some pussies
Pathetic.
I already did that
Am scared of having nightmares of turning of anulouges
Imagine if you fell asleep watching FilmFour the night before, and 0:12 suddenly woke you up. Start your day off with a surprise jumpscare! 😂
And getting the absolute shit scared out of you. If that happened at night, I would punch my TV so hard my fingers will be covered in cuts and wounds from the glass afterwards.
I’d definitely want to make sure it didn’t happen again.
But imagine if it was EARRAPED
Sounds like a nightmare.
Plus the Announcer is acting it like the Sky Box Will Self Destruct
0:50 when you go to here, the subscribe button glows up
cause it said subscribe?
For me, it's not scary, I like this design. :D
Same.
i much prefer it!
then they all grew up to be psychopaths :D
it looks cool but the voice with compression is creepy
The voice is pretty creepy and loud though
i can confirm now that i shit my pants in 6:00 AM, 31st March 2000
(i wasnt even born)
yeah i was also negative years old
It was 2000, Digital television was just getting started back then, the United States shut down analogue broadcasting on 2009
Well...they did partially in 2009, but only for full power stations.
They shut down all remaining low-power stations in the continental US and Hawaii on July 13, 2021. Alaska soon followed with their 15 low power repeater stations on January 10, 2022, citing the end of analogue broadcasts in the US.
@@inny74 I think a MyTV FrankenFM station is still up in the Northeast legally
This was UK analogue *satellite* closing down in 2000. Analogue over-the air TV in the UK didn't close down until 2007 to 2012 depending on the region.
That music is so early 2000s. Almost has Big Brother/Paul Oakenfold vibes
@@redrider2362 Well it's possibly something Film 4 made in house, but the genre is definitely trance
Might set this as my morning alarm, would definitely get me out of bed 😂
alot can happen on march 31st
selena's demise on march 31st 1995
and this creepy announcement that would happily give me nightmares 5 years later 😬
Carlton Cinema dying 3 years after FilmFour shutting their analog services down and 7 years after that BBC One Wales on analog turning off
Mario being cancelled
you know what we also need? A music-only version of this!
This is not scary to me. The music sounds like something from Minecraft and the background looks cool for 2000.
Where’s the background music
yeah
If I Existed That Day, I Will Be Sleeping In My Bed And All Of Sudden “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS ONLY” I Will Get A Jumpscare And Run Outside As Fast As I Can
Me too especially if earrape
Roses are red
I am lonely
IMPOARTANT ANNOUNCENT FOR ANALOG SATELITE CUSTOMERS ONLY
Edit: what have I done
roses are red
what is your favourite band
*_AS OF 6AM ON THE 31ST OF MARCH, 2000_*
Roses are red
White is light
_FILM 4 WILL NO LONGER BE TRANSMITTING THROUGH ANALOGUE SATTELITE_
Roses are red
No drug smugglers
THIS WILL NOT AFFECT CABLE TV CUSTOMERS
Roses are red
Clowns are from circuses
_AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILM 4 HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING IT’S DIGITAL SERVICES_
1:30 onwards CALM DOWN SIR
Please insert a PlayStation or PlayStation 2 format disc
0:13 rip headphone users
Nooooo
Filmfour heard that digital tv appeared,and then decided to shutdown analog filmfour straightaway 💀
That’s it. I gotta make an EAS mock with a screen like this
Still looking forward to seeing it.
@@bwc1976I’m actually jotting down notes about it now. Though I’m thinking it’ll be an Alert Ready mock (Canada), not an EAS mock (USA).
@@C-MidoriI bet it's gonna be very good.
This is one of the oldest analog(ue) sign offs I’ve ever seen.
Might be the oldest ever.
im real glad i wasn't born yet when filmfour went off the air
21 years later, mario celebrated its 35th anniversary
Yes
BC this switch didn't impact terrestrial television, but sattelite, which is less accessable
What does that have to do with anything?
@@kikicupcake1000March 31
No One:
Narrator: **I M P O R T A N T A N N O U N C E M E N T F O R A N A L O G U E S A T E L L I T E C U S T O M E R S O N L Y**
22 years ago today
We need a bass boosted version of this
that beep is old school earrape
It an emergency broadcast system message but without the emergency and fucking creepy
The shutdown:
Woman: Important announcement for analogue satellite customers only
Music: Bæòòòò Bæòòòò
‘’Cable TV customers are not affected and do not need to change their cable equipment.” Luckily that I got cable tv equipment! I born on 1992 January 12.
Until the warning wasn't so scary
But the voice quality of the person was really bad which seems to give off a scary vibe
Don't mind me, I'm just vibing here
The first digital switchover ever!
If this came in 2022, I would scream runaway tell my mother on FaceTime run to my mother‘s house. If she’s not ringing knock on her door stand my key card she doesn’t care she doesn’t answer. I took her to my house while she was sleeping, she woke up at the middle of night. She was so scared that she would scream really loud at the middle of the night then I call my brother to help me and then he said no it’s just an a lot stupid TV and then I scream really hard run out of the house. I’ll leave for the next door neighbour
Virgin Minecraft cave sounds vs chad Filmfour analogue shutdown announcement
Carlton Cinema died 3 years later.
LollipopTheSweet AKA 2003
Wait why
@Tegan Coombes maybe cuz ITV Digital, an equally as bad service, shutdown a year prior and Carlton Cinema dropped in ratings because of that
@Tegan Coombes As far as I’ve heard anything Carlton made was bad but idk cuz I’m American
@Tegan Coombes idk but the fact that the channel was supposedly trash (again I’m American so I wouldn’t know) no one would expect or even hope for the channel to come back. Quiet the opposite people will hope that the channel will stay dead especially since Carlton was a pretty trash brand in general (again, I ain’t British) since it has caused the end of many ITV regional stations like Thames and TV AM which were supposedly great channels and the closures of Thames and TV AM were considered the fall of ITV and even tho the trademark for Carlton is still there people still want it gone as revenge for the end of Thames and TV AM
HOW MANY YEARS OF MEMORIES
It’s kind of unusual that analog shutdown should start in ‘00 when it offers started in between’08 to 2012
I guess Filmfour didn't have any people who were watching for analog + They want to save money saur that is why they shut down
Plus they werent as big as BBC 1 and 2, BBC were big asf (in terms of money) saur they could just be able to Broadcast analog tv till 2012! But the same happened with filmfour and itv Digital saur that is why
@@Loveliyi seriously learn how to spell
it's so not saur
too busy dancing to the music in the background
Do you know what genre it is
Why did FilmFour switch to digital so early most networks usually switched to digital from 2007 to 2013
Yeah it’s kinda weird
This was UK analogue *satellite* TV closing down. It was UK analogue over-the-air TV that started to close down in 2007.
R.I.P FilmFour Analogue (1996-2000)
oh
The voice sounds like something from an EAS
Context: This is Analog Satellite. The Analog TV Shutdown in 2009 (USA) and 2007-2012 was Analog Terrestrial.
If OTA Channels Were Still Available, 99% of the population would have tv
Uhh we still have OTA tv.
We still have OTA Television, its just that it would be digital only in a lot of parts in the world.
Tvs today are very cheap and have over the air digital antenna in it
R.I.P filmfour 1973-2000
filmfour still exists in cable
00:13 It start of important announcements
IS THE STUFF IN THE BACKGROUND THE SAME TEXT WE ARE READING?
Yeah
Me: trying to sleep
My brain: 0:13
imagine this being your sleep paralysis demon:
This Is 20 years old today!
If it was on April 1st, no one would believe filmfour would actually do that :skull:
march 31st 2000 = no windows me, xp, vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, only 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 95, nt, 98, 98se and windows 2000
Obviously.
Background Ripple At 0:23 Is Kind Of Scary 😱,I'M SCARED OF THIS BACKGROUND AND THE SCARY MUSIC!!
It’s the same text as what you see and hear
Oh! Sorry! 😁
I fear no man
But that thing. It scares me
Cmon heavy
why is the background music so good
1:25 is where the announcement ends
Analogue Horror Be Like:
Someone need to create bass boosted or creepy version.
That would be awesome
It's not creepy already?
Imagine watching this at 3 am
15 years And this is too good...
Why does this remind me of the "The bluetooth device is ready to pear"????
The Old Sky Digital Box 📺
1:32 My alarm clock
Old Film Four
Anyone know the music?
the tunes are vibing tho. turning off analogue in funky fresh style
filmfour switched REALLY early knowing that popular UK channels such as BBC switched in 2012
Anyone got the original mp3 file
What It Looks Like When Hell Opens
I have the Logobook, published by Ludvouic (I think that’s how you spell it.) Houplain, creator of Logorama. Guess what I found? No clue? The answer was the channel that switched on 31/3/2000, Film4.
But you can still see that it is film4 just by looking at the start of this vid.
The first channel shut down on RUclips?
RUclips was made in 2005
Someone had a (tiny) hell of a time in their graphics software of choice. Genuinely looks like some sort of VJ effect.
Everybody gangsta till 0:13!
Cable can tune it for them
I actually got this whole video on my PC recorded.
HEADPHONES ARE BANNED bc of earrape
this used to scare the shit outta me
Carlton Cinema died 3 years later
O
I wish FlimFour Would come back
It’s still around. Just as Film4 nowadays.
Demonic beings
3. Satan
2. God
1. Filmfour analouge announcement
This gives off a kinda eerie feel
They shuted down analog cause they are moving their programming to digital teilvision date (03/31/2000)
Looks like ps2 needing a startup disk
Reminds me of the CBS gag on Family Guy.
So was this the first ever channel (probably in da world) in the UK to shut the analogue TV service?