Blast from the past...! I had Skyscan. It was installed in the 80s although the dish I had was much much bigger than the one seen in this promo. I want to say something like 2m. Perhaps because it was installed in the North of England it needed to be bigger, I don't know. Hell of a bit of kit back in the day. Always fun tuning into the various news feeds and seeing the behind the scenes stuff. Hooked a low cost hybrid analogue and digital receiver into it in later years (Echostar...?) and could seemingly tune in to half of the world. Probably helped living in the countryside on top of a hill with a genuine horizon to horizon view of the sky. This is such a cool trip down memory lane...!!!

Wow..more than 17 channels to watch...those were the days...

5:49 best part

@BillAnt

3 жыл бұрын

At 3:36 I thought it was some kind of Saturday Night humor with the guy lugging that huge dish. ha-ha

Its either a 1.2 meter dish or a 1.8 meter dish. To me it looks like an early model Channel Master 1.2 meter dish made out of fibreglass

What a SMALL TV, even back then.....

@mikekaraoke

5 жыл бұрын

There were different sizes of TV's, Thought that was common knowledge lol

@ralphhoskins2115

4 жыл бұрын

Hell ,,,, our main living room tv was a 25 inch console..... so TVs of that size were very common

@19seventy97

3 жыл бұрын

Thats a portable, only 14” I’d imagine this house to have a 26” set normally

@kenrickeason

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. 26 inch TVs were the most common tvs by the late 1980s and early 1990s..

I had this system, it was fantastic. with a few addons Hmmmmm... I could watch the scandinavian and french d2mac channels and always a great picture. best part was watching the 1st gulf war and the feeds going to reuters, cnn and other agencies, probably illegal but it was great fun

@nelo7149

5 жыл бұрын

It is not illegal to search for the open feeds and to watch them.

@davidbjork5063

5 жыл бұрын

Yes its still fun! Only problem I have that I live in northern Sweden and have too much trees in away. Other part this is really fun hobby.

It looks like a Echostar Receiver but I don't know which one model? In 1987 Astra came but Eurelsat 13°East have this 17 Channels I remember on 3SAT, Sky, Super Channel, Tele5, FilmNet, and the other I don't remember maybe SAT1 was there in the early days of Satellite-TV. I have a 1,40m dish from Hirschmann with a 1,8dB LNC and a Maspro 18 Memory Receiver with Manual Audio.

the opening music reminds me of Attack on Titan.

@binhmighty

5 жыл бұрын

Christina Mooney thought the same

5:13 , spared no expense for video gear , except for the TV.

I remember every place that had dish and two Mercedes-Benz in the drive!

At 3:36 I thought it was some kind of Saturday Night humor with the guy lugging that huge dish. ha-ha

That's one fxcking long sales pitch

Needs a bigger dish!

So basically a motorised dish xD

Over 17 channel’s!!!!!! Lmao..... kids these days have no ideal what we whom grew up in the 80’s and 90’s had to endure....

@mutestingray

4 жыл бұрын

Now they don’t even watch TV.

@dave1135

2 жыл бұрын

I live in northeast Missouri, in the 70s and 80s we only had 3 broadcast channels, and 1 UHF. We were in the country, so no other options except broadcast or satellite tv, which required a huge 8 to 12 foot dish, and if I remember it cost several thousand dollars. Didn't get cable until we moved to the county seat of 2,000 people in 1983. 15 channels, $10/month, plus hbo, cenemax, and showtime for $8 each

@Thebustermann

2 жыл бұрын

@@dave1135 until the early 80s you could only get three channels over uhf or VHF in the UK. The fourth started in 82, and then satellite sort of took off in the early 90s.

@hugoboss5895

3 ай бұрын

I’ve just given both of my teles away. They weren’t getting used. I still watch tele just not on a set anymore.

5:49 Thomas the Tank is definitely unsuitable for kids

Just found out the music at 0:05, it's Graham De Wilde - Network (1984)

@ryanpascual9598

Жыл бұрын

used by PMP Entertainment Sdn. Bhd.

thank you for sharing like

Is this really 1985? The channels are from astra 1 and marcopolo satellites, those are 1989ish

this wasn't 1985, maybe about 1989, the astra 1a satellite didn't go up until 1987 or something like that but didn't become live until the very late 80s, i remember my dad getting a receiver in 1989 and we waited till it became live

@MrAckers75

6 жыл бұрын

Gordon Campbell it didn't use Astra 1a

@northyorkshirechris5735

5 жыл бұрын

This video was around 1985/86. As I recall, the channels mentioned were originally intended for cable TV companies and were broadcast unencrypted. Home satellite dishes started coming onto the market in 1985/86 and took advantage of this 'free' television to market their equipment. The channels were broadcast from an early Eutelsat 13degE satellite and (as far as I recollect) Intelsat 27degW. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_(TV_channel) Other companies jumped on the bandwagon and realised the potential for direct-to-home satellite. The Luxembourg-based Astra satellite (at 19degE) launched in 1989 along with Rupert Murdoch's Sky Television. Videocrypt encryption was also available at the launch of Sky TV and allowed Murdoch to charge subscriptions unlike the early channels mentioned in the video. Murdoch then cornered the UK market, knocking out competitors like BSB and then moved to the 28degE satellite, which consolidated his stranglehold further. This latter point is interesting as it moved the UK away from the rest of the European market where there's less of a captive market, significantly more free channels and an abundance of choice in satellite receivers. You could also argue that this move also detached us from mainland Europe culturally as when we were on the main European satellite at 19degE, there was far more interest in European channels such as RTL in Germany. Motorised systems today in the UK are rare and are for 'niche' enthusiasts, hence few people here are unaware of what's available away from 28degE. If you're interested, look here: www.lyngsat.com.

@chrisvaughn5960

5 жыл бұрын

1987 i recognize the eurythmics video "when tommorrow comes"

Dish with a rotating motor to change satellite. Now that's something

Imagine a Motorola DSR-922 receiver from that dish [of course it going to be Pal not NTSC].

wow smokes holy makaroni

The *SIZE* of that dish!!

Upload more videos please

Plz tell what technology used in the recievet

From 7 to 3? Great, let me quit my job to watch the television.

@1990chrism

3 жыл бұрын

If you could afford Satellite TV back then, you probably also owned a video recorder, problem solved. Children's TV is also a useful way to keep the kids busy during the school holidays. Likely the transponder was timeshared with another channel, probably one targeted for more of a 'general' audience during primetime hours. To be honest daytime during working hours seems like the most logical time for children's viewing, as the younger ones don't have school yet and schools have half terms, Easter break, Christmas break, teacher training days, teachers strikes, and of course the 6 week summer holidays.

Questions does skyscan still exist and they ever add more satellites?

@stevegordon5689

Жыл бұрын

it just involved into sky tv!

Now we watch this on a phone

On what satellite was Skyscan broadcasting? Since the first Astra 19.2 East satellite was launched in 1988 and Astra 28.2 East was launched in the late 90s.

@danishbacon.

2 жыл бұрын

EBS, EUTELSAT or INTELSAT

@daveinthailand

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Euelsat 13Deg East and intelsat 27deg west was 4 years before Astra 19deg Used to watch Premier on Intelsat and filmnet on Eutelsat Got my first 1.8 M dish in 1986

@Nicholas_Chris

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveinthailand My family had their first satellite dish in 1991 and was on Astra 19,2 East. It was a 90 cm Ku Band dish. I was curious what satellites were available before Astra 19.2 East, considering Astra was launched in 1988.

@Nicholas_Chris

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveinthailand Wasn't Intelsat 27 West used for UK, Germany, France? And HotBird 13 East for the rest of Europe.

@daveinthailand

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nicholas_Chris Yes that is Right Used to fit motorised sat dishes back when I lived in 🇬🇧

Seems like something that will never take off...

Wait they still had brodcasting after 3?

I can't see this catching on.

They show CFL games in Britain?!

@videoluvr4204

2 жыл бұрын

Canada was formerly a British commonwealth country and still claims Elizabeth as a Queen

@ransom182

2 жыл бұрын

@@videoluvr4204 That’s doesn’t explain why are the British interested in the CFL

Ah yes, Lifestyle ansd Screensport, the channels brought to us by WH Smith...

@andrewschroy6368

2 жыл бұрын

Before, I imagine, they got their butts kicked by UK Living and Sky Sports, respectively?

@GeoNeilUK

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewschroy6368 Lifestyle was off air long before UK Living was a thing and Screensport "merged" with Eurosport (as in, Screensport went off air while Eurosport carried on broadcasting) This was also before Sky Sports was a thing if only just. Sky part owned Eurosport at that time. Eurosport was one of Sky's four channels, Screensport and Lifestyle weren't. By the way, this was the key difference between Sky and BSB. On BSB, their five channels were the only channels on the Marcopolo satellite. Sky, which was on Astra used four out of sixteen transponders on somebody else's satellite, leaving the other 12 free for anyone who wanted to rent space on them and that was before Astra went and launched more satellites.

@GeoNeilUK

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewschroy6368 Of course, in the case of Screensport v Eurosport, Eurosport had the advantage in that their name was the same in every language. The on screen name of Screensport was actuallty the European Sports Network. Screensport was the name of the channels English language commentary feed. Other languages had different names.

Size of that dish

@zedramer

6 жыл бұрын

Absolute unit.

@alphazulu3625

6 жыл бұрын

Small compared to many C band dishes. lol

@ao2495

6 жыл бұрын

1.2 meter Channel Master Dish

@youbastrds231

3 жыл бұрын

Big bring help

@stevegordon5689

Жыл бұрын

bigger than the tv

Intellectual property theft too💯

İlk çanakantenler de LNB acayipmiş.

Since terror vision i fear of this antenas

This commercial is from 1989 not 85 sky didn't exist then

@Covid-me1xf

Жыл бұрын

Satellite Television began regular transmissions on 26 April 1982. On 16 January 1984, Satellite Television Limited was renamed Sky Channel. Yes SKY existed back then. And this commercial is not about SKY but SKYSCAN

Is digital or analog

@Nicholas_Chris

3 жыл бұрын

Back then it was analog. In the late 90s digital satellite TV started broadcasting simultaneously with analog. After 2000s all satellite TV channels went digital and analog transmission shut down.

@DoritoFD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nicholas_Chris Interesting fact: here in Brazil we still have analog TV channels on StarOne C2 satellite, there are about 18 channels, probably it's the last satellite transmitting analog TV

@jbetnar

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoritoFD CSPAN on 131w AMC-11 is the last analog channel for North America.

Watch skynet design for machines that are waiting to see what's going on with the human race

Major Fraud Too

LOL - At 06:50 - "half the channels on one satellite, the other half on the other, that's why your dish moves, to change satellites" - *BULLSHIT* at its finest!!

@HBC101TVStudios

3 жыл бұрын

It's true. It's called a motorised dish