Category:Subscription Television Warning Screens

From Audiovisual Identity Database

Subscription television warning screens were common during the 1980s, when the technology for scrambling live television signals was relatively new, and sometimes so basic that home-made descrambler boxes could easily bypass it.

In the United Kingdom, many subscription television channels were not scrambled until the end of the decade, with Sky One notably remaining free-to-air until 1 September 1993: satellite channels often relied on dealers to get viewers to pay for reception.

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