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Very cool.
Nokorola 1 year ago 2
Just a question: Does anyone know what color-bar generator was used by WSMW in those days? I know at least one other station that used this kind of color bar arrangement: KTHI (now KVLY) in Fargo/Grand Forks, ND.
wmbrown6 2 years ago 2
@wmbrown6 pretty much all types of color bars are pretty common, and there can be tons of hardware to do that.
Kargaroc286 1 year ago 2
@wmbrown6 Maybe a Tektronix 1410, I know for sure (since I have one in my studio) that it can generate full-field color bars as pictured here...
pvx 1 year ago 2
Damn, they didn't even bother to let the dude finish his sign-off!
donjabroni 2 years ago 2
Interesting seeing the ONTV logo and graphics for a station airing Preview subscription programming. Any info on how that would come about?
nextg 3 years ago 3
Because Preview by this time,was quickly going bankrupt, and shared it's feed with Ontv,and eventually Selectv.Preview finally ended all together in 1986.
LemonSubscriptionTV 2 years ago 2
stuff like this would work great on digital because it could use digicypher like the cable networks.
kargaroc386 3 years ago 2
@kargaroc386: Actually, that already has been done--by a now-defunct company called USDigital (aka USDTV). They offered encrypted digital channels over the air (through participating DTV stations) of cable tv fare (CNN, Discovery, ESPN, etc.) that could be received by a USDTV receiver box (which also doubled as a free-to-air standard ATSC DTV receiver). USDTV even offered their boxes through Wal-Mart for a while, but the service was only limited to Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, and Tucson...
pvx 1 year ago 2
@pvx Hi Did you have USDigital (aka USDTV)? Did you get (CNN, Discovery, ESPN, etc.)? How did they Scramble the channels you did not pay for? Do you have any videos or photos? Who took over USDigital (aka USDTV)? Do you know if they are going to launching a service like that soon or are there any other companies planning on launching a service like that soon? I hate Cable Tv! Email me back.
Thanks,
Varian
varians 3 months ago
@varians Yes, I did have a USDTV box myself a while back. I sent you a reply to your personal message you sent me, with all the details.
pvx 3 months ago