Videocipher II advert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocipher#Videocipher_II

This was the first consumer scrambling system. It began testing in 1985 on HBO satellite transponders on Satcom 3R and Galaxy 1 and entered full use in January 1986 by HBO, and within two years was used by a majority of major cable television programmers. However, lapses in its security enabled some cable pirates to modify the descrambler to receive free programming. Beginning in 1991, programmers began to phase out the VCII system in favor of the highly secure Videocipher II Plus (RS) system. The system was fully phased out in 1993

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• videocipher
• II
• American
• Exxxtasy
• Extasy
• decription
• Television
• encryption

[delfmeek]

I remember as a kid, accidently stumbling across the Triple Exxxtasy channel. Sex Ed at it's best right there :)

[ReturnofRetroBoy]

That's a lot of dead presidents for wacking material.

[momixdj]

they were offering in this ad 4 years subscriptions but this channel (spacenet 1 transponder 18) was abruptly shutted down forever two years after this ads, about two weeks after they begin including 'gay porn' in their transmissions, leaving only tuxedo netwrok, Playboy Channel, and Rendezvous.

[raydeen2k]

@ReturnofRetroBoy Well, considering we now pay that much and more for a computer plus 30-50 bucks a month for internet...that wasn't a bad deal for all-you-can-eat porn back then.

[infomercialtime]

ahh c band was great! always an adventure!

[strokadellic]

Rock N' Roll.

[RetroBoyWontDie]

Same here. Installer got me a hacked VCII so I could get passed sports blackouts. But it got the adult networks as well...w/o audio. As he said, you can do your own gruntin' and sweatin'.

[mubd1234]

I would hate to be a 4 year subscriber. The company folded in 1990, 2 years after this was aired.

[tmastersat]

The Vc2 received all the major cable channels not just this one.

[OnionRingOfDoom]

rofl @ 2:22

[FPAtl]

Call us, we'll turn you on.

How true are those words.