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eloisant•44 minutes ago

My father was in electronics and schematics of pirate decoders were being passed around between friends/colleagues (this was before the web!) He got the schematics and built one.

Later in the 90's, when TV cards became cheap enough I got one for my computer then there were software to decode the signal.

amiga386•about 1 hour ago

Interesting! Over in the UK we had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCrypt

https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1995-11.pdf

dtagames•about 2 hours ago

An ancient Easter egg is revealed at the end of this interesting article. The "all free" code was `1337` or "leet" in leet!

tclancy•about 1 hour ago

Not quite. The T is silent.

kotaKat•about 1 hour ago

Asking for "TBA 970" delay chips in electronic stores prompted employees to offer the full list required to build a "decodeur pirate"

Good ol' civil disobedience. Love it.

breakingcups•about 1 hour ago

[2020]

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

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