[jtarrio]

Yeah, that's the Nagravision that the article mentions at the end.

There were programs that could use a TV capture card and decode it in real time on a 486DX2. They worked pretty well (I felt ok using it because we already had Canal+ but it was on the living room TV and my computer was on the opposite side of the house.)

[septune]

"meuh meuh TV" was a famous one

[anthk]

Wilma and MoreTV in Spain for Windows, Xdtv/Xawtv with some Nagravision patch or plugin.