07-07-2021, 02:57 PM
I was inspired to make this thread , since there is almost 20 years of when OnDigital disastrously rebranded to ITV Digital , and a failed thread that could have been interesting , and more-so just for fun. This is the thread of early digital TV ?
I remember when I first got digital , it was October 1998 with Sky Digital: It was not on the launch day , but I know they were airing a lot of Halloween specials around the time , and it was not Halloween either. It was replacing our old analogsat Sky service and I remember the installer was some woman that seemed desparate to be some “ sexy nerd “ type.
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This is the VERY old EPG style. At the time we literally found the existence of that exciting. ? I just scrolled on it for hours that day. ( some channels from analog Sky were not launched yet. ITV was also not there yet but it was added later with ‘ press TV then 3 for ITV ‘ and then finally launched on SkyDigital in 2001 )
When interactive services came , or just got discovered by me , I was obsessed by them. You used to be able to order Pizza through interactive , and I found the digital Teletext cool even though it was not that exciting , on the same kinda thing , in the very very old boxes the subtitles could only be found on actually going to Teletext and getting up pg888. Then later they could only be activated through actually the services menu , now they can be found on just “ Help “.
In August 2001 , Sky+ launched and I believe my family got it in November 2001. 14-year-old me found this absolutely revolutionary and recorded as much as I could ( but was a good boy and copied them to VHS after watching a few times ) Another memory is that sometime around 2002 I spent way too much money on Sky Box-office. My parents were not happy about that. I even remember the PIN-code disaster in late 2005 , who else does ? ?
Call me old , but all this still feels very new and fresh. ? My teen son and even some people on this forum is literally younger than freeview ?
What do you have to weigh in on the topic of early digital TV ? I focus more on the pre-freeview days but anything up to 2006 counts as early , I guess. ?
I remember when I first got digital , it was October 1998 with Sky Digital: It was not on the launch day , but I know they were airing a lot of Halloween specials around the time , and it was not Halloween either. It was replacing our old analogsat Sky service and I remember the installer was some woman that seemed desparate to be some “ sexy nerd “ type.
This is the VERY old EPG style. At the time we literally found the existence of that exciting. ? I just scrolled on it for hours that day. ( some channels from analog Sky were not launched yet. ITV was also not there yet but it was added later with ‘ press TV then 3 for ITV ‘ and then finally launched on SkyDigital in 2001 )
When interactive services came , or just got discovered by me , I was obsessed by them. You used to be able to order Pizza through interactive , and I found the digital Teletext cool even though it was not that exciting , on the same kinda thing , in the very very old boxes the subtitles could only be found on actually going to Teletext and getting up pg888. Then later they could only be activated through actually the services menu , now they can be found on just “ Help “.
In August 2001 , Sky+ launched and I believe my family got it in November 2001. 14-year-old me found this absolutely revolutionary and recorded as much as I could ( but was a good boy and copied them to VHS after watching a few times ) Another memory is that sometime around 2002 I spent way too much money on Sky Box-office. My parents were not happy about that. I even remember the PIN-code disaster in late 2005 , who else does ? ?
Call me old , but all this still feels very new and fresh. ? My teen son and even some people on this forum is literally younger than freeview ?
What do you have to weigh in on the topic of early digital TV ? I focus more on the pre-freeview days but anything up to 2006 counts as early , I guess. ?
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