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This brings back so many memories, in the late nineties my dad brought a PCI TV Tuner card for the family computer and ditched our real TV in order to avoid pay
by bulgr0z 6y ago
This brings back so many memories, in the late nineties my dad brought a PCI TV Tuner card for the family computer and ditched our real TV in order to avoid paying the French TV Tax ("redevance").
It also allowed us to pirate Canal+, decrypting the video stream with a program called Moo TV (if I remember correctly). The audio stream required another program.
It was all a bit janky, frames were frequently dropped, and sometimes you had to tweak a few parameters to get a proper audio stream but the fact that it was (mostly) working was simply amazing to my brother and I.
Good times :)
- rtsil 6y ago> Moo TV (if I remember correctly). Meuh Meuh TV. In the earlier version you had to use TV cards with special chips to use it. Good times. I think it pretty much died with the advent of digital TV.
- bulgr0z 6y ago> Meuh Meuh TV That's it ! Thank you so much for the rabbit hole of memories i'm about to go in
- rtsil 6y agoWell, your username brought back a flood of memories of its own, so we're even.
- tangue 6y ago"Meuhmeuh TV" ... brings back some greats memories. Finding a TV card, downloading a key on a strange website called "bellevache.com". I miss beige computer and PCI cards...
- anthk 6y agoHere we used MoreTV+Wilma under Windows/Xawtv-Nagra under Linux.