This was actually quite historically significant, as it marked the first set of channels to be removed from the Sky Analogue service. By then, digital upgrades were no brainers, especially for the price. Sky also didn’t use that logo for too long, maybe around 6 months.
@@Secret19977 Shortly before the launch of Sky Digital, Sky announced that a full analogue service would continue to run for "many years to come". They lied.
Ok, I'm going to interpret what the people behind this message were thinking: Person 1: Ok, so we're shutting down the analog service for FilmFour. How do we tell everyone. Person 2: A simple cutoff and message at midnight? Person 1: Nah, too simple. Come on, give it some jazz! Person 3: Have the announcer give a formal goodbye? Person 1: Ok, a bit bland but I l think that could work. Person 4: Scare people shitless in the dead of night? It would get us more coverage because people would gossip about it more! Person 1: That idea sounds terr- Director: Perfect! Person 1: Bollocks.
If I woke up to this or this happened to me in the middle of the night when I was the age of the shutoff, only for it to go pure black in the room after, I'd scream and cry
*AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILMFOUR HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING ITS DIGITAL SERVICES.*
*_TO RECEIVE SKY DIGITAL, YOU'LL NEED TO REPLACE YOUR CURRENT DISH AND BOX WITH A NEW DIGITAL DISH AND BOX WHICH IS FREE WITH SKY'S OFFER. ALL YOU'LL PAY FOR IS THE £40 STANDARD INSTALLATION COST_*
CALL NOW AT THE SECRET NUMBER YOU CAN FIND ON THE PASSWORD PROTECTED PART OF OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO FIND A SAFE PLACE TO HIDE IF BASEMENTS ARE NOT AN OPTION.
Do not leave your shelter for 14 days, do not use the telephone, the telephone lines shall be kept open for emergency use only, ensure you have 14 days of food and water and a battery powered radio, seek shelter in the inner most room of your refuge, use perishable foods first as tinned foods last longer, of not look at the blast as it may cause temporary or permenant blindness, the explosion may also cause hearing loss, normal programming has been suspended, power may be lost at any given moment, if so, tune to ***. ** on the AM band Etc etc Yeah I've been watching those since 2012
The slightly sparklie testcard indicates either a slight transmission power reduction or could have been too small a dish used i.e. a 60cm dish in Northern England or it could have been that the dish was out of alignment.
UK cable TV system operators merely put up a large dish aimed at Astra 2 on their outdoor cable head reception end and added a Skydigital receiver and card to their cable head end equipment, in order to carry on relaying the FilmFour service to their subscribers. In analogue cable systems, unless the cableco had decent fibre optic carriage and reception equipment, the quality was fuzzy with buzzy and / or hissy mono analogue sound. On better cable TV networks, the pictures would be better with one of two options for stereo sound, ie relayed via FM stereo radio frequencies which requires a rather cumbersome arrangement of hooking up your hi-fi system antenna socket to the cable and tuning FilmFour in on an FM frequency or if you were really lucky, the digital stereo sound from Skydigital (FilmFour never used Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 surround sound at the time) would be encoded to NICAM Digital Stereo and your NICAM Stereo TV and NICAM Stereo VCR would pick it up in NICAM format.
Well...they did partially in 2009, but only for full power stations. They shut down all remaining low-power stations in the continental US and Hawaii on July 13, 2021. Alaska soon followed with their 15 low power repeater stations on January 10, 2022, citing the end of analogue broadcasts in the US.
This was UK analogue *satellite* closing down in 2000. Analogue over-the air TV in the UK didn't close down until 2007 to 2012 depending on the region.
This was from 12 yrs ago. Analogue and dgital transponders can coexist as long as htey are on different transponders. Allsdso receiver needs to support it
@@StefanoYLRP analogue signals do not carry the same kind of quality as digital (at least, nowhere near as easily) and it costs money and time to maintain two sets of systems where one of the services is of a much lower quality
Roses are red Clowns are from circuses _AS MOST ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE DIGITAL SATELLITE SERVICE, FILM 4 HAS DECIDED TO FOCUS ON CONTINUALLY IMPROVING IT’S DIGITAL SERVICES_
If I Existed That Day, I Will Be Sleeping In My Bed And All Of Sudden “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ANALOGUE SATELLITE CUSTOMERS ONLY” I Will Get A Jumpscare And Run Outside As Fast As I Can
And getting the absolute shit scared out of you. If that happened at night, I would punch my TV so hard my fingers will be covered in cuts and wounds from the glass afterwards.
I guess Filmfour didn't have any people who were watching for analog + They want to save money saur that is why they shut down Plus they werent as big as BBC 1 and 2, BBC were big asf (in terms of money) saur they could just be able to Broadcast analog tv till 2012! But the same happened with filmfour and itv Digital saur that is why
‘’Cable TV customers are not affected and do not need to change their cable equipment.” Luckily that I got cable tv equipment! I born on 1992 January 12.
If this came in 2022, I would scream runaway tell my mother on FaceTime run to my mother‘s house. If she’s not ringing knock on her door stand my key card she doesn’t care she doesn’t answer. I took her to my house while she was sleeping, she woke up at the middle of night. She was so scared that she would scream really loud at the middle of the night then I call my brother to help me and then he said no it’s just an a lot stupid TV and then I scream really hard run out of the house. I’ll leave for the next door neighbour
@Tegan Coombes idk but the fact that the channel was supposedly trash (again I’m American so I wouldn’t know) no one would expect or even hope for the channel to come back. Quiet the opposite people will hope that the channel will stay dead especially since Carlton was a pretty trash brand in general (again, I ain’t British) since it has caused the end of many ITV regional stations like Thames and TV AM which were supposedly great channels and the closures of Thames and TV AM were considered the fall of ITV and even tho the trademark for Carlton is still there people still want it gone as revenge for the end of Thames and TV AM
I have the Logobook, published by Ludvouic (I think that’s how you spell it.) Houplain, creator of Logorama. Guess what I found? No clue? The answer was the channel that switched on 31/3/2000, Film4.
@@foxdae7762 This will not affect cable TV customers. As most analogue satellite customers have subscribed to the digital satellite service, FilmFour has decided to improve their digital satellite services.
