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it was their last day and it looked like one the cameramen but they didn't care which at the time was understandable.

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Probably a alias

Similarities to VHS and Beta.

Your wrong BSB was low quality af and sky is 2K/4K

it is now but back then Marco pollo satellites were in D-MAC and not PAL which meant digital sound. IMO, sky should of kept the the D-MAC and became the first digital satellite company and (although i didn't witness it) you wouldn't of got rain spots as you did with astra analogue.@@Bfdiguy4566

But BSB didn't have the Conservative government in their pocket like Murdoch had (has).

@@PsykelektricIt took you 1 month

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You're right; at the time, Sky One's schedule was almost entirely made up of American imports. Meanwhile, Galaxy (BSB's answer to Sky One which closed down four months before the Power Station) featured a mix of British, American and Australian programmes. Big difference.

Component wasn't RGB tho, but YPbPr or something similar.

​@@fungo6631The cameras used for bsb studio and video tape productions were coupled up in component for the studio broadcasts and recording direct to tape to give the high quality pictures.

@@fungo6631 Technically that's correct but in everyday practical use they're very much the same and both far superior over the composite system used in PAL. The first time is saw digital television over SCART-RGB on a 50Hz CRT set without any picture manipulation I was quite stunned what a difference that made. So much clearer, sharper and much better colors. 50hz CRTs could really shine with digital feeds via RGB and SCART.

@@notsorandumusername Can confirm. Cheaper TVs benefited the most. I had some no name brand Soundcolor CRT TV and switching to RGB SCART made a BIG difference in image quality, it was much sharper!

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That's what you get if ball drop having some power outage.

All the BSB idents were better than their respective Sky idents.

The tone on testcards is generally to test that sound/related systems are working correctly afaik, it probably has other purposes too (possibly to check that the frequency is tuned correctly, it might shift in key or be a few semitones out if the tuning is misaligned). It might just be as simple as it being the cheapest way to have continual sound for checking check transmission/reception of audio, as generating a simple tone is very easy with just basic circuitry. I suspect it's not there to scare or "wake people up" although I suppose that might be handy if you've left your TV on, but I suspect Sky couldn't care less if you had.

BSB was not on astra which SKY was on. THE Power Station was on the Marco Polo satellite.

@@woking1970 That's super Mark but at age 5, the satellite could've been called mint Polo and I still wouldn't of known this channel and let's say it is called "Mint Polo" Markus o' Rellius, I still don't know this channel dear-heart.

@@Hertfordshire247 Well sounds like your dad had Astra which most would of had.

@@woking1970 Who knows. It's 1 and only crime was that I become a WWF fan. 30 years later, I am still a WWE fan. There should be implications for this.

And then there were sparklies all over UK Gold because the footprint was not centred over the UK.

Did you know Pat Hawker?

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I think that's New York, New York with changed lyrics