SES ASTRA Promo 1996

SES ASTRA Promo 1996

[@RS250Squid]

I used to watch this over and over and over and over as a kid :D.

[@KatzLoganTV]

omg me too. I knew every word by heart

[@robertpreece7259]

same here when it was a stand alone channel

[@jamesparker8086]

Me too. In various different languages

[@Pash091]

Me too haha, I have never heard the music at 3:26 since '96 when I was 5 years old but I still know every tone of it 😄 Finally I found this video 😁😁😁

[@RS250Squid]

@@Pash091 Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights.

[@AbamboPictures]

Cool! I did work on this film at the time. The CGA were created at my company by Dan Altmann, a wizzard in 3D CGA. I did system management and programming stuff for this production.

[@nikiferrari2091]

AbamboPictures Good work you did back then, this brings back so many memories... Don't suppose you know the name of the background track that starts at 0:35 do you.. been after it for so long.. :)

[@nordlichtaushb]

And perhaps you could help me with a reference to the background track quite at the end where Astra's presence at exhibitions and fairs is being shown. Please what is the name of that pizzicato track behind? Thank you.

[@EuroPAL625]

I liked those CGA of the satellites in 1994, when the video ran on an endless tape on Astra. And I still love them today. They came really close to the real satellites with respect to their design, but not in their respective size to each other. Great work, nevertheless!!! What was the name of your company back in those years?

[@EuroPAL625]

@@nordlichtaushb The fairs and exhibitions music: Paul Foss - "Docklands (Full)

[@mibri]

@@nikiferrari2091 Hello! If you're still looking for it, that tune is Colloque by Jean Couldric.

[@AnonYmous17]

Dear Petr, thank you so much for uploading this video. I grew up with this on the satellite, I watched it countless times. I remember everything!! Makes me very nostalgic to see it again now. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

[@RS250Squid]

I must have watched this several hundred times as a kid, much nostalgia :-).

[@marcusdamberger]

I remember seeing this in 96' when I was visiting in Germany from U.S. that summer with my family. I asked what the dishes I kept on seeing outside homes were for. Then my cousin pulled up this demo channel, and tuned in the English audio portion. I was fascinated by it. Then realizing this was how the DirecTV DBS (then called DSS) system worked in America. (they should have had a demo like this to explain how it worked) Though DirecTV launched with digital service from the start in 94', and everything was encrypted, versus Astra having clear view on some channels with others encrypted. I liked the fact that most of the national networks were in the clear for everyone to see. I'm amazed they kept the analog service up through 2012. Until last year (2014), you might have been able to count all the analog services in north America on one hand, and those were mostly hold out religious broadcasters and shop at home networks. I would have loved to have been given a tour of the Astra facilities in Luxembourg that summer. Amazing looking grounds with the old and new next to each other.

[@MarkPentler]

Directv started with digital that early? That's amazing

[@techtinkerin]

I also used to watch this over and over, glad I wasn't the only one 😁

[@jasonl5967]

I have a copy of this promo on DVD somewhere which is exactly the same as this but mentions that there were 6 satellites in orbit and Astra 1F was launched from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, I first saw this in 1997 so i guess that version was updated in late 1996 and broadcasted on Astra 1D

[@djurre26]

Very nostalgic for me too, i used to view this channel over and over again back in the nineties in Daumazan France while eating everal bowls of milk and Smacks :)

[@SilverSpoon_]

back then when we had this, with all the radios and MTV, and many foreign channels : «we truly are in the future»

[@horvatdado]

I remember when I got the first satellite dish way back in 1996. I was 10 years old and I was watching this channel over and over again and always wondering why I can't watch MTV.... They started broadcasting it at the beginning of 1999. It was MTV Germany, but for me good enough. Later that year Cartoon Network /TNT was shut down...fuck...I was so mad

[@kerriejones5170]

I used to be obsessed with this video when we 1st got sky

[@dazr6604]

Serious music! Serious business @ 1 minute! Saying that, the Roland LA synth sounds from the 80's were a bit old by 1996!

[@sinistag3943]

Haha me too me and my brother would watch it all night lol

[@Bohoushh]

jako malej kluk sem na to vydržel koukat hodiny :-D věděl sem že to jednou zase najdu

[@Furcan81]

tiež som sa na to nevedel vynadívať, k tomu ešte ta hudba :)

[@one2nd1]

I remember this, great to see its upload

[@TheCovest]

Охренеть!!! Реклама из моего детства!!! Сколько воспоминаний возникло... Кстати, тарелка так и висит, но уже без дела. Снимать принципиально не хочу.

[@UserOfTheUnknown]

Does anyone know the musical piece used when the satellite rotates around the earth?

[@aengusmelia5449]

Can anybody tell me what the classical music that starts at 4 min 35 is called please?

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

This is very interesting to see

[@tomsmogf6976]

I've watched this demo at home in Poland when i was 12 in 1996 all the time. Whats the music in 3:30?

[@EuroPAL625]

It's the same piece as in the following clip starting at 00:50. I don't know its origin. www.bahnorama.com/news/index.php/news,1342,Tempo_fuer_Europa

[@nordlichtaushb]

The background sound when the space craft is launched? That is composed by Sergej Prokofiev in Romeo And Juliet No13 Dance of the Knights. By the way at the time I wrote this comment there existed a pop cover by Robbie Williams Party like a Russian.

[@EuroPAL625]

Paul Foss - "Chronicle One"

[@Joakim-1995]

@@EuroPAL625 Do you also know the soundtrack at 0:35?

[@RS250Squid]

That's Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJDLgIVrZdpqm80

[@steeviebops]

Some of the soundtracks can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGKvmZ56aMp_jcU kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqubY3R8j7-JfKM kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZCpZ4Stn8qtjaM

[@jamesparker8086]

I’ve been looking for these pieces of music since about 1996. I need to buy you a pint!

[@RS250Squid]

After nearly 30 years, an awesome person has identified almost every single part of the soundtrack of this promo! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3vNoIZ_p6aDa5o

[@grzegorzkasak1790]

Hello, does anyone know the title of music at 5:36 ? Thank You:) Shazam can't recognize

[@mibri]

Found it! It's Dancing Star by Armand Frydman.

[@birdy100]

What is the music at 01:10?

[@neoKushan]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqubY3R8j7-JfKM

[@nikiferrari2091]

It’s Colloque by Jean Couldric… It’s taken me 25 years to find the name of it 👍

[@zawar2151]

anyone know the music at 2:19 ?

[@mibri]

It's Resignation (A) by Alan Shearer.

[@jaredjackson8526]

Does anyone know what the music is from 5:22 please? It is so nice to hear it again.

[@RS250Squid]

The music brings a happy little nostalgic tear to my eye, but I don't know if anyone outside SES Astra will ever know what it actually is :). EDIT: I tried to hit it up on Shazam. I tried 3 times. No result :(.

[@ronanmcdermott9161]

Andy B haha. You tried I guess. I remember this from back in the day

[@stephendavies8510]

Luxembourg like other tax havens shouldnt exist.

[@Joakim-1995]

I just uploaded the intro soundtrack : kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGKvmZ56aMp_jcU