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Xarafsay :
I am in Somalia and I am still using this satellite dish
2024-04-30 15:54:05
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andyb521740 :
we had the pirated cable box that unscrambled all the channels for free 🥰😁 thanks dad 🥰
2024-04-07 20:52:01
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Dieter Pinklage :
1980s VPN
2024-04-07 23:17:20
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Bart Simpson :
My mom and step dad had one, channel surfing was a pain having to move the dish to find HBO, ESPN etc,
2024-04-07 20:26:56
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SS23 :
I thought that was the epitome of good living
2024-04-07 23:55:26
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Redshift :
Wasn't quite free. lol. But I do remember being able to move the dish to pick up different satalites. You could catch East or West coast broadcasts and go all the way to Hawaii for TV.
2024-04-07 23:36:06
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KingOfPot :
Finally got an old descrambler in 03 and watched about $20,000 in ppv before the 06 digital conversion.
2024-04-07 22:52:13
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Dale McCarthy :
Also you could listen to long distance phone calls 😏
2024-04-07 22:54:20
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Rajio 🇨🇦 :
no you could buy descramblers in the 90s
2024-04-28 03:46:21
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Jake :
I know someone who turned one into a giant disc golf basket
2024-04-07 21:23:09
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John B :
Yep. “C” band. You could get a black market descrambler.
2024-04-08 01:37:48
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capturingglory_photo :
My dad was so excited about it. The first thing remembered watching was Rambo first blood in color
2024-04-07 22:28:56
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Starry_Messenger :
C-band channels were scrambled in the mid 80’s and the development of Ku band mini dishes like DirecTV and Dish spelled the end of the big dishes. The C band dishes c
2024-04-07 23:10:05
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Shaun Gray 🛳️ :
I had a giant one in rural Washington in 1992 but my parents paid monthly. I think it was called Primestar.
2024-04-07 23:08:44
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Jerry :
yes descramble boxes all the way into the early 2000s but then DirecTV piracy followed by dish network piracy
2024-04-08 01:13:43
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tobias :
These use too creep me out after watching that John Ritter film Stay Tuned!
2024-04-08 01:40:25
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unCOUVER :
Growing up in very rural northern Canada we had a grey market DirecTV system and got EVERYTHING for free. This was really common in Canada in the 90's
2024-04-27 02:23:36
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Grayson :
You could also hear and see what was going on the scenes when they went to commercial
2024-04-07 22:27:22
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hard19111 :
I got one still 🙄
2024-04-07 22:30:31
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kag :
my dad had a mesh 6ft one in the early 90s, i had to clean it off in the snow
2024-04-07 22:02:16
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user6050105293932 :
still in active use in Africa. costs like $120 for a full set up of FTA channels. iPTV is the new kid on the block
2024-05-01 09:27:23
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Sampson :
In 1999 went to wal mart for 99 $ got the small lnb and the box put it on a shed took bout an hour had cable just like that in the middle of nowhere .
2024-04-07 21:18:07
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James H. Hill :
we used to build these things called black boxes (descramblers) and we'd get all the premium channels for free. 😉
2024-04-07 23:36:18
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Lakskasgg :
im live in indonesia,and the answer, yes it is. explanation below=>
2024-05-26 08:22:55
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Corey Hoffarth :
Wait…..the channels were free?
2024-04-27 02:27:33
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