re: My neighbor still has a satellite, I'm confused

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all the Mexican porn channels

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Si! Si! Dios Mio! Si! Si! SIIIIII!!!!

Congrats on your impending brain cancer. Can I have your baseball card collection?

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You talking about one of these guys?

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I miss those big satellite dishes


Always thought they looked cool

When they're pointing straight up you know they are watching the Playboy channel.

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we had one of those huge dishes. you could watch something on a new york feed and then switch to the california feed a few hours later and watch it again.

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Ahhh… the old days of being able to pick up the network feeds of the networks. They used to be in the clear in analog then switched to digital and eventually HD. Some networks did eventually encrypt their feeds like Fox.

Fox had an automatic switching system they used to use called the Fox Splicer that would switch the network feed on and off automatically with little transcoding as possible because Fox was worried some of their smaller affiliates would mess up the feed or not pass the correct 5.1 surround sound or mess up the video.

Now as the C band space has shrunk some of those network feeds have gone internet or fiber to the stations.

Same reasons I keep the dish.

I can vaguely remember him getting the Madison Square Garden channel and in between rounds a guy would run over with a beer hand it to one of the announcers who would take a few quick chugs then start calling the fight when the round started

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Sporting events with no commercials

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Saints preseason versus the Colts, early 90’s. In what would have been a commercial break, a scantily clad chic rode out on a horse (at Indy).

Jim Henderson asks Archie what he thinks of the Colts entertainment.

Archie’s response:

That would make a bulldog break his chain.

Good stuff.

lots of folks in rural areas still have satellite TV.

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Sporting events with no commercials, every boxing and wwf PPV for free. All kinds of wild stuff.

On the live news and sports feeds when the producers cut to commercials the feed kept running. The on air talent might motherfrick the camera man, scream at an assistant, or hot box a cigarette

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Yep those are still there, but are getting fewer and fewer in use as most news feeds use cellular, hardline internet, or even Starlink to feed back to home base. The way that works is that they know one connection may not get the needed bandwidth needed for decent video, so the box they use will split that over multiple internet connections from different carriers and bond them together as one internet connection making it more robust to send higher quality video.

The first iteration of these were the size of a hiking backpack, now they have shrunk to the size of a fannie pack.