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Old 13-11-2016, 22:02   #14
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Talking Re: Were cable customers able to subscribe to the encrypted BBC services in the 1980'

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
I didn't get cable until 2001ish.

After a discussion yesterday with someone about the Select BBC programmes that were scrambled in the late 1980's, I wondered if the cable customers (with their ability to encrypt & decode scrambled analogue systems) offered this service to their customers.

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When my family moved into a new housing scheme in 1969 it was built in clyde valley ,aerial reception was poor so the whole development was piped up yes we called it piped tv back then , think it was rediffusion big company back in the day but it was always breaking doon so we ditched it . BBC SELECT ?
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