Analogue Satellite TV Zapping bandscan 1993 Europe 3m polarmount dish (Vintage TV clips test cards)

Oh, the Wild West days of Satellite TV, where anyone with the knack & a good dish can find anything on the air. 📡

Man, if there is one thing I get really nostalgic about is how manual and verbose it was using analog sat tv back in the day. I really miss it compared to how instant and perfect it is nowadays.

0:43 The good old TCC. That used to be the go to channel for all the kids at the time before CN came along.

back in the day when TV was exciting :) I remember scanning frequencies on Astra and Kopernikus in the early 90s and the test transmissions from the new Astra satellites in the mid 90s

4:45 this is a polish station Polsat, it still operates to this day as a not only satellite station but also over the air and cable. They also are it's own satellite provider called Polsat Box (previously Cyfrowy Polsat)

1:45 Based on this part, I know that it was recorded between 5PM and 6PM GMT+1. That's the "Vijf Uur Show" (Five O'clock Show).

So in 1993, the entire European sky was ca. 350 channels that you could surf through in 12 minutes... Not much more that you now get from an average cable provider... I vaguely remember watching analog satellite in friends' houses around that era, as a small child. I don't think anybody had such fancy positioners though - by aligning my memories with the records we have now, I think 19.2E and perhaps 16E or later 13E was everything. As a kid who only had terrestrial TV (2, later 6 channels), I was still mesmerised by the seemingly never ending channel list. I only got my own access to an actual satellite dish in 2018, long after analog is gone. On digital, there are of course thousands of channels, but a much greater percentage is encrypted; among the FTA ones, there's many more throwaway ones, so the number of channels actually worth watching is not much bigger than back then - they are just much harder to find. And a digital "channel encrypted" message is much less fascinating than actually seeing the analog scrambling on screen. So yeah. Thanks for preserving the nostalgia for an era I could not live in full for myself.

Cool sogar eine Infotafel von RTL2 mit dem Start am 6 März 1993.👍

Wow! What a time capsule! Thanks for sharing!

Stunning upload, takes me right back. Thanks!

Nostalgia at its finest back from the mid nineties. Layout and channels exactly how I remember 😍

having satellite tv was what rich people had in the 90s, i remember by aunt who had a nicer house in the forests of norcal had big satellite and tv big screen tva nd walk down living room and we could watch tv shows in the future eastern time

Ah yes, this looks very familiar - at least Astra and Hotbird which we received at home. And even back then some channels had their audio way too loud up to a point it starts to distort. Nice that you also included some radio channels! I also noticed some French-spoken channels were black and white. Those would be in the SECAM format. I guess the VCR couldn't deal with that. I always liked satellite tv because it offered much more than cable tv would - let alone ether tv. It somehow felt like you had access to channels you 'weren't supposed to have' which I very much appreciated. In most European countries, state television was protected at all costs not giving a dime about what the people who funded them actually wanted to see. To finally see some competition for them by channels not bound by politicians or religion was a very welcome relief. Nowadays many commercial stations are just a cynical excuse to show advertising and state tv is often downright propaganda for the powers that be. I wonder how the tv landscape will look like 10 to 20 years from now as we are already full in the streaming era.

I used to install 1.8m moterised dishs in Newcastle UK I had a Rediffusion rsr50 back in 1989 there was lots of decoders back then Great vid thanks

Beautiful era. Many memories!!!

Hey, thanks for uploading this video. It's really fascinating for me to watch.

Channel listing 0:00 MTV Europe 0:02 VOX 0:08 Sky One 0:10 Sky News 0:14 Sky Movies 0:17 The Movie Channel 0:23 TV Asia 0:28 UK Gold 0:35 EuroSport 0:41 The Children's Channel/NHK 0:47 CNN 0:51 RTL Plus 0:56 Sat1 0:58 DSF 1:00 Pro7 1:03 ARD 1 Plus 1:05 3Sat 1:08 Nederland 3 1:10 BBC World Service 1:12 RTL4 1:15 Premiere (Scrambled) 1:17 Teleclub (Scrambled) 1:20 Cinemanía (Scrambled) 1:22 Documanía (Scrambled) 1:25 Sky Specials (?) (Blocked) 1:29 More MTV Europe 1:33 FilmNet (No signal) 1:35 TV1000 (No signal) 1:36 TV3 Sweden (No signal) 1:37 TV3 Norway (No signal) 1:40 Power FM 1:43 Radio Luxemburg 1:46 Sky Radio 1:48 Hit Radio 1:51 RTL4 Radio 1:54 Radio RAI 1:58 Radio Sweden 2:06 Super Channel 2:09 TV5 France 2:12 (Feed) PTT-Telecom Netherlands 2:14 MBC 2:17 ARD 1 2:20 Deutsche Welle English 2:23 EuroSport 2:25 FilmNet (Audio only) 2:27 EuroNews 2:29 News feed 2:32 Unknown 2:34 ARD 2 2:36 Feed (No picture nor audio) 2:39 Brussels news feed 2:42 Feed (No picture, inintelligible audio) 2:43 VisNews (No signal) 2:45 Voice of America Europe (Audio only) 2:47 Radio Gold 2:50 (Left Channel) Deutschlandfunk (Right Channel) BBC Radio West Scottland 2:52 Voice of America International (Audio only) 2:57 Reuters Jerusalem news feed 3:04 ITN News feed 3:06 MAC (European HD Analog Broadcast Standard) feed

Nice band scan because memories come up it was a nice time. Mtv, Raiuno, premiere

I was very happy to see this old tv stations.

2:55 That was scary!