ITT post about old early digital tech This is the interface for the Sky tv menuIt was a satellite tv service in Britain It had games and stuff too
My favourite piece of music from the epg.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwFBo3P0os
>>109694995this is mine which as an aside uses the same sample from the first tony hawk's menu music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnvgtgYqcII remember browsing the sky menu when I was young and being so entranced by this strange alien system
>>109694995We had DirecTV for several years when I was a kid. The best DVR we ever had with it was Microsoft UltimateTV. My recollection is the interface was better than TiVo and DirecTVs own offering later.
My mum was using the digibox for almost 20 years right up to the sd switch off. She now uses freesat which I will have to switch again to freely in a few years.
>>109694977It's kinda funny that there are no interfaces as quick to use as this one was.My favourite feature of modern boxes the auto-preview that causes the box to switch resolution/refresh rate so everytime you pause scrolling through the guide, your TV blacks out for a second.
>>109694977When being the biggest badass was having Sky Sports...
>>109695960Wait, what. They're getting rid of freesat? I swear all this internet only stuff is going to backfire massively.
>>109694977> BBC You get porn channels on sky?
>>109694977Started in the 90s but lasted into the early 2000s I think, this thread made me think of LodgeNet for some reason. I remember getting drunk and playing this for way too long one time when traveling.
>>109694977My elderly boomer parents still subscribe to Sky satellite service, since they are filtered by iptv tech.
>>109696426Sky sadly moved to internet based. It's just another streaming service now. (or is in the process of moving, there might be still some legacy customers)
>>109696426In my experience iptv sucks ass with all the lag and packet drops, so you parents might be on to something here.
>>109696828Sky still offers satellite service where I live. They do have an iptv option though, and satellite subscribers can use the streaming service through their mobile/smart tv app.>>109696895Satellite really does have that perk. On the other hand, in bad weather satellite can also have lag, drops or even go offline for a few minutes. Also they pay a hefty premium for that, since iptv can be much cheaper, especially if you go the pirate route.
>>109696828>>109697136Satellite will be going in the 2030s because the European satellites are end of life. You can rely on satellite for free television (Freesat built in tvs or existing Sky boxes), which carries a lot more channels than Freeview. It will be a shame to see the superior over-the-air tv go first.
>>109697543Ah. That is a shame. There's a noticeable delay with internet based (couple of seconds? I noticed it during the world cup when I could hear neighbours celebrating a goal before I could see it.
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>>109697815Had especially noisy liverpool fans next to me on satelite and I was watching it on Virgin Media. They'd cheer a good 10 seconds before I got the goal.
>>109695988The degree to which DirecTV's software was bloated over the years making their older DVRs chug was insane. Especially considering how many boomers just never updated their shit because they didn't want to lose their recordings.We're talking a consistent five seconds of input lag, to the point where you can't even key in a channel half the time without it missing some digits.Especially funny during that period where people still had a mix of HDTVs and CRTs, where you'd have a shitty slow ass DVR in one room and then an ancient Hughes-branded SD receiver in another room that has zero input lag and flips channels instantly.
>>109696340holy shit, if they could, companies would be trying to do this right now. remember when they tried to make cloud gaming a thing so they could nickel and dime us? Fucking jews man
>>109696340how did this shit even work
>>109696340damn, I'm LodgeNet years old
>>109696340>emulators still primitive>laptops barely usable>no wi-fi>every hotel had an N64 controller>it was a ploy to get people to pay almost as much as a new N64 game (Goldeneye was $69.99+tax+tip in 1997)Yet I want to go back for some reason.
>>109694995I was the poor kid who only had 4 tv channels (5 if you include a static filled TG4) and didn't even have a tv remote so their parents made them the tv remote instead. I pretended to have sky to fit in, but everyone knew I didn't. I felt like such a loser
>>109700353After a certain point, it became the same stuff being rerun over and over again. Maybe something you like would be on at some impossible timeslot. Around this time, (((reality TV))) was all anyone watched outside of scripted dramas. Those old "500 channels and nothing to watch" jokes came true.
>>109700389Yeah I figured that out later in life when I watched sky over at my cousin's or aunt's house. The only time I watch TV is if there is a film I want to watch on. The rest of it is trashYou had a record feature, so it would get around that problem of not being able to make it in timeHonestly, I just caught up on all the good stuff I missed by watching it for free on dodgy steaming sites later in life. I watched the entirety of all stargate series that way
>>109700230>pay money>console lets you play game
>>109701373>hook up console to VCR>switch to channel 3 or 4>turn on console>gaem for hourssure miss those days where it was that simple and games were actually fun
>>109695013Youve posted this before o wizened sky EPG autist
>>109694977>Closed Source>"I Enjoyed This!"Yes, we already knew you were a Golem.
Thoughts on FieldStation42? It's supposed to be a way to make your own aughts tv channels. https://fieldstation42.com/
>>109700230you had a controlled connected to a tv. No console. You went to the channel and rented it like a pay per view.
>>109694977I remember Time Warner Cable, Charter Spectrum, Cartoon Network, TV Guide. Oh yeah, coax cable set top box. Was interested in how that worked.
>>109696828That's interesting to learn, because my TV has a Sky box from when I moved in, but no Sky card and no subscription. It made me connect to my WiFi and I was worried I'd just get some bullshit about stealing TV and the loicence people would come after me, plus I didn't understand why I couldn't just get TV from the fucking satellites since that's what they're there for. If the satellites have been switched off, that explains a lot.
>>109694977I had a cable TV Nokia D-Box 1 with DVB2000 and back in the day DF1/Premiere/Premiere World didn't change their keys often so the key files I had written on the "smartcard" did last quite a while.The lengths I've gone through to watch Wrestling in Germany.This was before the new encryptions were implemented and you needed card sharing.
>>109705225...and then streaming video on the internet became a thing...
>>109694977Man I love that old tv guide, spent days scrolling the list. I remember playing some of the games on there with my grandpa. I thought about making a jellyfin theme that's reminiscent of that old EPG..
>>109701373but it worked over a network with no lag
i miss tivo
>TNG being the best on this listHoly fuck boomers must have been bored
>>109708673i cant believe i was about to type up a reply running defense for dinnerladies on UK Gold 20 years ago
>>109708965It's fine go ahead
