Thread: SD Were cable customers able to subscribe to the encrypted BBC services in the 1980's?
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Old 12-11-2016, 23:33   #8
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Re: Were cable customers able to subscribe to the encrypted BBC services in the 1980'
This service utilised BBC1 & BBC2 during hours of shutdown overnight. Cable companies would have carried this in the same way as analogue terrestrial TV. All cable systems had "off-air" analogue reception equipment & channels 1 to 4 plus any additional regions were carried on an analogue bypass direct to the TV without going through the cable converter. So the necessary decoder could simply be inserted into the coax feed to the TV the way it would with a normal aerial.
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