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Tomorrow's World - Satellite Television - First Broadcast from Astra - 1989

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Uploaded by on Dec 6, 2009

Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford on the roof present the first broadcast from the Astra satellite.Those two WHSmith channels sound exciting! 24-hour magazine reviews!

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  • confused as satellite tv has been going since before than 1989...... unless i misunderstand something.....

  • @playgirlc it's the first broadcast from the astra 1a satellite

  • Great clip.

    Hmm. When Howard put his hand over LNB receiver, the picture didn't break up. Oops.

  • Ah, well it's hard to see on this compressed clip, but it sort of pauses and scrambles slightly.

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  • tomorrow's world was always great to look at and it just go's to show how dumbed down Tv is today in the UK. Even shows like the gadget show dumb down everything to simple product reviews.The whole of TV today in the uk is news,soaps, chat shows and reality shows. Even the science content has gone from BBc2. Why do we have to pay a license when the BBC aren't even providing education any more.Fuck the BBC.People learn by constant exposure to technology and we get dumb shit soaps like eastenders

  • Features such as this prove why the show is still relevant today - technological advancements. Had the show of still been running today we would have seen things such as Blu-Ray,HD TV, multi core CPUs, Tablet PCs, Camera Phones, Wireless Internet, USB Drives, etc, etc all demonstrated to the public ahead of release.

    Come on BBC stop giving us endless tripe on TV and BRING BACK Tomorrow's World!

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  • '''All the way to the Scottish border,,,'

  • Was this on cable or analog?

  • I had a receiver in 1984 watching Eutelsat, Intelsat, Thor, so shome mishtake shomewhere!

    Betzdorf wasnt even built then I dont think.....

  • I don't see this catching on personally

  • ...and in 22years time, satellite tv will be in over 10million households in the uk.

  • This was DBS right, the small dishes. You could get one of those huge ones before I assume.

  • @AidanLunn cheers yh a quick look at wikipedia confirmed it all for me.

  • @jimmyass Astra didn't - BSB's Marco Polo did :)

  • typical if you live up north you have to pay more, Thatcher's britain say no more !

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