Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by bulgr0z on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:15PM (#23457887)

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 :)

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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by rtsil on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:42PM (#23458156)

> 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.

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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by tangue on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:18PM (#23460926)

"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...

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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by bulgr0z on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:47PM (#23458206)

> Meuh Meuh TV

That's it ! Thank you so much for the rabbit hole of memories i'm about to go in

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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by rtsil on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:13PM (#23458462)

Well, your username brought back a flood of memories of its own, so we're even.

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Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s by anthk on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:53PM (#23461681)

Here we used MoreTV+Wilma under Windows/Xawtv-Nagra under Linux.

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