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Originally Posted by nodrogd
As far as the BBC transmissions, you would see the same as a viewer recieving the channel "off-air" (more than likley a scrambled picture). On the channels coming through the converter, unsubscribed channels would default to a slate, or a preset channel decided by the cable company (channel guide, or in our case our own local cable TV channel, West Herts Television).
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Thanks, so the BBC encrypted transmissions would have been the first time that the vast majority of people in the UK had ever seen a scrambled programme!
I myself wondered what on Earth it was, but didn't think that aliens were trying to contact us after waiting until BBC1 & 2 had closed down
