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by bulgr0z 2207 days ago
This brings back so many memories, in the late nineties my dad brought a PCI TV Tuner card for the family computer and ditched our real TV in order to avoid paying the French TV Tax ("redevance").

It also allowed us to pirate Canal+, decrypting the video stream with a program called Moo TV (if I remember correctly). The audio stream required another program.

It was all a bit janky, frames were frequently dropped, and sometimes you had to tweak a few parameters to get a proper audio stream but the fact that it was (mostly) working was simply amazing to my brother and I.

Good times :)

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> Moo TV (if I remember correctly).

Meuh Meuh TV. In the earlier version you had to use TV cards with special chips to use it. Good times.

I think it pretty much died with the advent of digital TV.

"Meuhmeuh TV" ... brings back some greats memories. Finding a TV card, downloading a key on a strange website called "bellevache.com". I miss beige computer and PCI cards...
> Meuh Meuh TV

That's it ! Thank you so much for the rabbit hole of memories i'm about to go in

Well, your username brought back a flood of memories of its own, so we're even.
Here we used MoreTV+Wilma under Windows/Xawtv-Nagra under Linux.