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by TacticalCoder 55 days ago
> That came very handy to many a teenager on late Saturday evenings.

GP is referring to Canal+ who'd play that one weekly porn movie on saturday evening.

Us kids from the eighties could watch like 30 seconds unencrypted, than the scrambling would start.

We'd still watch the movie ; )
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amiga386 55 days ago
In the UK we had the Red Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_(Channel_4) where we stayed up late for the hope of some sexy fun times, and we were exposed to culture and not nearly as much nudity as we had hoped for.
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koolba 55 days ago
> GP is referring to Canal+ who'd play that one weekly porn movie on saturday evening.

As an Anglophone it counts as taking a 1-credit foreign language class.

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wolvoleo 55 days ago
Where I lived the paytv encryption just removed the sync signals and audio and by finetuning the TV you could get a fairly clean black and white picture. It sounds similar to Discret 11 but it wasn't quite the same.

Only with a major scene change (eg day to night) this would need retuning. And this type of content didn't really do that, as most of these movies take place in the same bedroom :) so it was not a bad way to watch it.

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