C-Band Scrambling Videocipher Satellite Descrambler 1980's

[@Legend813a]

*Captain Midnight feelings intensify*

[@cammartinez5245]

My family have that 😂, i remember the scramble channels like cinemax and playboy tv too.

[@rkmklz7562]

I remember having this....we got rid of ours before we moved in the 1990sm...this was a real mess....this killed the satellite TV business...a lot said ..no way we were going to pay for satellite TV...it was a crime...way should people invest in this if they had to pay a monthly fee...we got rid of ours 😮...

[@brandonbert]

$400 for a VCII in 1986 dollars was a farce! $150ish would have been more fair. It really added insult to injury. People were already pissed about scrambling.

[@glennjamin]

Was there an discounted upgrade program for owners of the original VideoCipher boxes? I'd go all-in on television piracy if you had to pay $400 for an upgrade too.

[@brandonbert]

@@glennjamin Legit subscribers got free replacements. But piracy was so rampant in the late '80s and early '90s that I had actually never ran across a non-chipped VideoCipher. People would have rather paid hundreds per year to the pirates than to go legit. The VideoCipher II Plus never was defeated as far as I know.

[@DiamondPleasure75]

Good