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The "make sense of what could be" might have been a good way to make people tempted to subscribe actually: it was so frustrating to identify a program you could
by gregoriol 6y ago
The "make sense of what could be" might have been a good way to make people tempted to subscribe actually: it was so frustrating to identify a program you could be interested in and not be able to fully see it.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYeah, a weird kind of freemium model. I am assuming it wouldn't be hard to turn off the encryption for say an hour every once in a while and advertise a 'free viewing' every once in a while to get people to subscribe.
- dnpp123 6y agoThat's exactly what they did and where they got most of their customers from. Those 'free viewing' (canal+ en clair) probably had one of the biggest impact on french comedy TV culture ever. Some shows of that era are still on AFAIK.
- Totoradio 6y agoFor the football games, they turned on the encryption shortly after the game started. This created the expression "but en clair" ("unencrypted goal") where a team would score so early that the encryption was still off.
- PetitPrince 6y ago> biggest impact on french comedy TV culture ever. And french politics. French politics in the '90s and '00s wouldn't be the same without Les Guignols de l'Info.
- anthk 6y agoWe had Les Guinols in Spain too, in the same channel.
- anticensor 6y agoThere were broadcasters doing that too, such as Cine 5 in Turkey, disabling scrambling for commercial breaks.
- mshook 6y agoThat's why at the end of the 2010's, C+ decided to reintroduce this "encryption" scheme because people changing channels would end up on a black or blank screen saying "subscribe". That wasn't really appealing to a potential customer. Now if you tune to channel 4, you get the blurred image again...