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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 991365" data-attributes="member: 325666"><p>How far back do you want to go mate ..</p><p>Welcome btw ..</p><p>-----a potted history----</p><p>All the way back to the first dedicated TV service in the UK ..</p><p>Back when Sky was BSB ...and broadcast in circular polarisation from MarcoPolo ..</p><p>Back then it was of course Analogue ..</p><p>Other services were available of course but these were not UK specific ...and required large dishes and motorisation as a minimum ..</p><p>Back then it could easily cost you a couple of grand for the gear ..</p><p>Only when BSB started up and fixed dishes pointing at Astra 19.2 around 90cm did it become of economic and practical interest to the masses.</p><p>Really sat as we know it today ..re digital went through a few manifestations such as Dmac ...until a standard was accepted ...</p><p>In the UK this was Videocrypt ..</p><p>All change after that ...That phase of satellite distibution had more in common with Analogue ..</p><p>I suppose you could call it encrypted Analogue ..</p><p>True digital is what we have today our arc slot being 28.2 E (Encyption format NDS/Videoguard)..though Dmac and D2MAC not used by the UK _were_ digital formats in their own right..</p><p>The rest as they say ..IS history ..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 991365, member: 325666"] How far back do you want to go mate .. Welcome btw .. -----a potted history---- All the way back to the first dedicated TV service in the UK .. Back when Sky was BSB ...and broadcast in circular polarisation from MarcoPolo .. Back then it was of course Analogue .. Other services were available of course but these were not UK specific ...and required large dishes and motorisation as a minimum .. Back then it could easily cost you a couple of grand for the gear .. Only when BSB started up and fixed dishes pointing at Astra 19.2 around 90cm did it become of economic and practical interest to the masses. Really sat as we know it today ..re digital went through a few manifestations such as Dmac ...until a standard was accepted ... In the UK this was Videocrypt .. All change after that ...That phase of satellite distibution had more in common with Analogue .. I suppose you could call it encrypted Analogue .. True digital is what we have today our arc slot being 28.2 E (Encyption format NDS/Videoguard)..though Dmac and D2MAC not used by the UK _were_ digital formats in their own right.. The rest as they say ..IS history .. [/QUOTE]
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