Eurotrash was an option in the UK for those without any satellite.
We had Sky, it was British Sex for me.
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could "fine tune" the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
Real Sex always seemed so not sexy. I mean, I'd watch it for boobs as a kid, but I was always kind of turned off by the whole show, idk.
Kinda like red shoe diaries. It wasn't porn, it was usually some kind of shitty crime movie or student arthouse film with boobs.
Here I am watching scrambled Sex and the City, wondering when it will get to the good part.
Red shoe diaries
Red Shoe Diaries, backed by Much Music (I'm Canadian)
Ah, a man of culture, I see. This was my choice.
Make sure to hit last, channel up, last. Foolish proof. I'll never get caught.
Here I thought I was the only one this clever.
This guy faps.
y'all remember that vcr trick that you could unscramble all the PPV channels.... golden times... golden times.
Wait. what black magic is this? 12 year old me desperately wants to know.
Dunno how replies notify... but I replied to a reply on your reply.
<_<'
I have no idea. If you recorded something on vhs it didn't play it back unscrambled did it?
so what you did was set your vcr to the ppv channel you wanted. and then kept flipping between channel 3 and 4 on the TV until it just unscrambled it. It apparently had to do with the vcr's ability to like fix when old vhs tapes would get wonky and like have mess and like lines. the color wasn't always right.... but for free WWF (i'm that old) ppv and... well pron... it was great.
the real hero is in the comments, 25 years later…
Brilliant maneuvering
I thought I was the only one smart enough to devise this plan!
I feel seen
Yeah but if you were watching Nick at nite the whole time, why did the channel number flick on the screen for a second?
I switched away during the cash for gold commercial
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