Archive for July, 2010
A blast from the past. Fellow Brits remember the days before sky digital? Sky analogue where got pixels over the screen when it rained and all the German, French, Spanish, Scandinavia channels were mixed up with the UK ones? Half of them were scrambled and loads of different kinds of scrambling? You’d always find a test card somewhere.
Anyway I’ve made a mock up of what it was like to turn sky on in the early 1990’s and channel hop though all the channels. NOTE: This is of course fake, what I’ve done is search though and rip loads of clips from youtube and cut and paste them together to make this mock up (yes I’m really that sad) and yes I know it’s very inaccurate and some clips are from different eras some are early 1990’s some are later and it would have been impossible to channel hop exactly at the moments of indents over & over again but I think I’ve just tried to create the ‘feeling’ of what is like to channel hop though sky in the early to mid 1990’s. I was going off an online sky channel listing (crica 1993) that someone posted on an internet forum to get order of the channels back then best I could but I am using my own memory to try and remember which channels were scrambled (and then finding a clip with the kind of scrambling they used again all from memory. E.g., I can clearly remember how Teleclub and Filmnet would be viewable expect when they were actually airing a movie then they would scramble). A lot of this is done from re-creating stuff from my own memory. Obviously some clips are from totally different channels etc but used to just substitute and get it as close as I possibly could. Enjoy
Duration : 0:6:34