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| Author | Topic: Welcome |
| scott |
posted 7/4/06 10:49 AM
Welcome To the satgold forum.Use this forum to talk about old satelite tv days,tv idents,programmes or to seek help from other posters. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 7/5/06 8:04 PM
Hello,Its a great site you have set up, I offer my greatest congratulations on finding all this information and putting it in one very convenient place! TV-Ark is a great site to find things about all the old satellite stuff, as well as the old cable channels. I remember the days of Analogue Astra, I used to really like Cartoon Network, and the thing I don't understand is they were FTA then, only to be not now, it is a great channel, and I would like to have it again. Again, your site is great, and the new look makes it even better!Kevin. |
| scott |
posted 7/10/06 9:40 AM
HI Well because my parents had satellite tv which was a luxury as my friend didn't so popped round my house i think the channels are great back then and the idents and logo's were excellent. Glad you like my site.Keep returning for your memories. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 7/12/06 3:47 PM
Yeah, it was good finding that channel line up from '96, quite interesting looking at the Cartoon Network one. I thought it was TCM it shared with, but still this was a long time ago. Remember FilmNet from then? We got FilmNet 1 but not 2. And we can't forget TV1000... |
| scott |
posted 7/12/06 5:42 PM
Cartoon network shared with TNT before it became TCM remember tnt aired wcw wrestling friday nights.Filmnet was good when it was unscrambled when it was for previews and then scrambled when the films started. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| scott |
posted 7/12/06 5:48 PM
Here is the tv1000 website: Tv1000 /and filmnet: Filmnet also this 1989 filnet video clip: Filmnet http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. [This message has been edited on 07/12/2006] |
| Kevin |
posted 7/16/06 1:25 PM
Those were the Good Ol' Days wern't they.. We used to have a movable dish on our house, from Eutelsat HotBird 1 to Astra, and Thor and the rest. We had a pirate card too, think we've still got it somewhere... Do you have any of the coding software? I found this one: Multimac, would you like a copy of it? |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 7/17/06 3:32 AM
I don't have satellite tv no more.Never had eutelsat/intelsat just astra 1a 1b 1c 1d.Just got cable tv now. Sky digital has to many channels and ain't worth watching ,like shopping tv,golf,tv etc. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 7/17/06 6:52 PM
Well, originally we had just a stand alone dish, pointing at Eutelsat, I think at 19 East, but we had the extension built, so we put a motor on it. Remember the big pay-per-view boxing fight on Sky, and we got it for free on TV1000 :). |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 7/18/06 4:01 AM
I thought tv 1000 was encrypted along with tv3. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 7/19/06 7:12 PM
Not if you had a EuroCrypt decoder card, the internet, and a dish pointing at Eutelsat. :) We didn't watch TV3, but TV1000 we did, although that was mainly FilmNet because of its better film times. |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 7/21/06 4:53 PM
What programmes were on tv1000 as i never watched it as it was encrypted on astra.think it was on channel 11 or 12.oh and by the way why are we the only ones using this forum.Any i deas on getting the other visitors to this site to come to the forum? http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 7/22/06 11:43 AM
Well, I made a Wikipedia article for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sat_GoldMaybe that'll get some more visitors.. |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 7/24/06 6:03 PM
Thanks for the wikki article. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 7/27/06 2:15 PM
Classic episodes of ray cokes programme mtv most wanted which aired on mtv euorope in the 90's can be seen Click Here http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. [This message has been edited on 07/27/2006] |
| Kevin |
posted 7/27/06 4:41 PM
Cool, its amazing what you can find when you look. :). |
| Kevin |
posted 8/6/06 8:39 PM
I just thought I'd tell you, I'm planning on getting my old dish out soon, want to see analogue while its still there! Mainly the French channels... :) |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 8/7/06 12:17 AM
That good let me know what you receive. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 8/7/06 6:20 PM
Well, I put it up today, first looking at Atlantic Sat 3 (5W) for the French channels. Our old Amstrad receiver can't go up that high, so we can only go up to 1264ghz, on a universal LNB. I then pointed it at Astra (19E), and got about 50 channels (mostly German, but hey), then, after that, I got out my friends ex Sky digibox, and tried to get a signal, but after much tweaking, no luck. I'm now pointing it at 5W to try to get a channel, and some luck, but now I'm trying to find the code to get into storing it!Not bad for a 80cm dish sitting on the garden, pointing at god knows where... |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 8/8/06 3:36 AM
just like them old astra boxes the first went up to 16 channels for astra 1a and if needed 1b,1c needed a new box or adapter.Strange thing was that the astra 1d channels were actually receiveable on the actually tv not the satellite channel. http://satgold.blogspot.com the old days of astra/bsb satellite days and programming also tv idents/clips. |
| Kevin |
posted 8/8/06 9:02 PM
I got the code for the box, but I did something really stupid. I put the phone line in. I got into the installer menu, and did a 'new installation', where it searched for channels, then called back to Sky. Little prats. It then checks my phone number, and says 'not your card, zap!', so now I have a useless card. Well, I didn't want BBC TWO Wales anyway. |
| scott |
posted 8/13/06 1:02 PM
oh well don't worry.Still only us on this forum.Doesn't anyone else wanna talk old satellite days. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
| tj |
posted 8/29/06 4:03 PM
Just wanted to say, what a great site ! the memories have come flooding back. The excitement of getting our first dish, and learning the art of channel-hopping. We got our first system in 1992, and have vivid memories of watching the Lifestyle Jukebox, and seeing " Hello" by Twinkle several times an hour !!! and of course the novelty of dropping into RTL late on a Friday night ! - where have all the years gone ??? |
| scott |
posted 8/29/06 4:30 PM
The good old days have gone and the good channels have gone and expanded in to extra channels and +1 channels.mtv is not what it use to be now every channel seems to want a phone in quiz. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
| tj |
posted 8/29/06 6:36 PM
agree totally on MTV - I used to watch it every day, but for me it was spoilt when they started the regular Beavis and Butt-head thing, I may be in the minority, but I really didnt like it, and in fact don't think I have even dropped into MTV at all in the past five years or so. |
| scott |
posted 9/1/06 4:41 PM
someone on the digitalspy forum is doing a petition to get mtv back the way it use to be but unlike they will listen. [This message has been edited on 09/03/2006] |
| Kevin |
posted 9/6/06 7:27 PM
Hey, back from hols now, been playing with my dish, and trying to record some French Simpsons off Canal+. I have seen it on there, but now need to know, and can you get W9 un-encrypted on satellite? |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 9/9/06 12:29 AM
not being a wizz on new satellite the best thing is to post questions in the digitalspy forum Click Here they may help.any way welcome back if you noticed i had another poster in the forum well thanks to me posting the link in a thread about old satellite tv on the digitalspy forum.. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. [This message has been edited on 09/09/2006] |
| Kevin |
posted 9/20/06 7:58 PM
Its been a few days hasn't it? Anyway, more news. I have found an old video I recorded off Cartoon Network in 99/00 and it still works! I'd forgotten most of the idents and things but its nice to see them again. :) |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 9/22/06 10:46 AM
that is good i still have a tape with old sky sports logo 1992 i think and a wwf wrestling advertisement for tuesday in texas on sky one. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 9/22/06 10:46 AM
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 9/22/06 10:47 AM
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| Kevin |
posted 9/27/06 6:52 PM
I've sent an email to the TV-Ark about it, no reply yet though.I might get a new digital receiver. This old Panasonic Sky box is irritating when it comes to symbol rates... |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 9/29/06 5:15 AM
I see tv ark is getting a new look from december 25th. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 10/2/06 4:38 PM
i've added a new page called sat gold extra it has more video and info that not covered on the sat gold site: Click Here Sat Gold Xtra http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. [This message has been edited on 10/02/2006] |
| Kevin |
posted 10/8/06 7:10 PM
I was just wondering, but do you know the FilmNet analogue switchoff date? (For Eutelsat 1W) |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 10/10/06 5:32 AM
sorry no clues about the filmnet analogue switch of date. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
| Kevin |
posted 10/13/06 9:36 PM
BTW, what service did you go for in 1990? BSB or Sky? Or did you do what I did and go for a non Sky dish in '95 and decrypt FilmNet and TV1000...;) |
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scott (Moderator) |
posted 10/16/06 2:56 PM
My parents went for one of those big black 60 cm astra dishes that picked up sky and astrea 1a,1b,1c, but was hard picking up astra 1d. http://satgold.blogspot.com Memories of astra /bsb satellite days. |
| Rich |
posted 3/22/07 10:35 PM
This is probably impossible to find!Does anyone know a site which showed the Cinemania test card from the 1990's???! It was broadcast on Astra 19.2E.Rich |
| Rich |
posted 3/22/07 10:35 PM
This is probably impossible to find!Does anyone know a site which showed the Cinemania test card from the 1990's???! It was broadcast on Astra 19.2E.Rich |
| Rich |
posted 3/22/07 10:35 PM
This is probably impossible to find!Does anyone know a site which showed the Cinemania test card from the 1990's???! It was broadcast on Astra 19.2E.Rich |
| Scott |
posted 3/31/07 3:19 AM
Was that the fish type test card? i think it was i am having a look round the web (search engine image function) if i find it i'll post a reply here. http://www.freewebs.com/satgold |
| Scott |
posted 3/31/07 3:27 AM
the fish was actually documania the link to the image below http://www.park.nl/catalog/catalogjpgssmall/406.jpg documania test card |
| Steve |
posted 10/12/08 11:28 PM
Where is the current Sat Gold extra web site? |
| satwizz |
posted 2/3/10 11:13 PM
where you all gone :( |
| fff |
posted 12/20/10 10:30 AM
ffffffffff http://amazingforums.com/forum3/CARDER/9.html 337814 |
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