Isaac yeah, 2pac, digital underground

We used to say they didn't play music back then, too. Funny how that works. :P

no... they hated certain bands.

But they started scrambling in the summer of 1995 .. Now I see the answer by lbulbu "The decoder was still trying to decode a picture that was not encoded. The result is an encoded image. "

@@peterk3558 right, MTV was scrambling in 1.July 1995. And u see at the beginning Cartoon Network was encrypted but the decoder noticed that Cartoon Network had a free-to-air signal (4 years later Cartoon Network was encrypted in 15.October 1999)

Hey mate, do you have some scrambled in Nagravision Syster recordings? I'm browsing KZfaq for them. I need them to decrypt and to improove open source video filter - software scrambler named CryptImage. And if you have videocrypt recordings that you wanna decrypt send me some samples!

The reason a decoder was still trying to decode FTA channel was the long interval for sending videocrypt info for the decoder in the teletext and it was about 2,5 seconds.

i wonder who's idea it was to encrypt a shopping channel lol

@@robertpreece7259 yep, it's ridiculous :D

@@robertpreece7259 Encryption wasn't just used to lock down pay tv, it was used to stop outsiders from the region they wanted it to be broadcasted to viewing it. This was especially so back then but it's still in use today although not as much now most satellites have both a general purpose beam covering a continent, and focused beams covering specific countries and regions. Astra has a great footprint app on their website that explains what each satellite is built for, and what each footprint generally carries, like satellite internet, general communications, commercial TV, uplinks, etc, and the likes of LyngSat still has a couple users who scan and contribute findings when they see new encrypted, decrypted, test, uplink and general purpose band stuff all over the world In a world where cable TV choice is in decline thanks to generally less TV channels now streaming platforms are here to stay, Satellite proves to be an incredibly useful source if you like seeing what's on offer and want to have that choice back again, especially if you have a motorised dish!

@Andy Fennell RTL is a german tv channel that used to air all sorts of stuff from children cartoons on Saturday mornings (it switched to KRTL at that time) , talk shows, news, movies, tv series (Alarm fur Kobra 11 sounds familiar?). I used to watch Quincy MD, Miami Vice and Magnum PI back then late at night. RTL2 showed lots of Anime series in the early 90 to early 00s - from 12pm to 4pm. A lot of tv series aswell. I remember watching Wonder Years, The Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider, 6 Billion Dollar man, Bionic Woman,.... Nowadays both of these channels show lots of reality horse shit. It's kinda sad actually. Would have loved it if they repeated the classic shows from the 70s,80s and 90s.

@@mesicek7 I remember most of the German channels turning in to adverts for hardcore porn past 23.00 hrs.

I know im late, but that is because the channel you were talking about was encoded, but Cartoon Network wasn't, but the decoder was still trying to decode it, making it look like it was scrambled. The scrambled channels have those rough edges for some reason, but non encoded ones dont.

@@GrumpzTheCat The rough edges are the encryption data. On analogue TV encryption like VideoCrypt, the data was sent in in the video feed during blanking intervals, if I recall correctly.

Yes :)

They began scrambling it on the 1st of September, 1993.

Never mind, found it

Digital Underground - Wussup Wit The Luv

Tom K it's not scrambled look at the edge on the right :)

Yes eurosport and cartoon network was free

Sat 1

Videorypt

THIS IS BBC ONE !

I think that the used videotape dit not stand the time very well. Astra had a super strong signal.

the original separate videocrypt decoders tended to suffer image degradation. When I got a new Pace receiver/decoder the quality was much better couldn't really tell the differece from an unencrypted channel.

Note that the red imperfections persist even on channels that weren't being scrambled in the first place. As for the right edge of the screen, I wanna say that's actual data used by the decoder.

In these countries