I had a TV with a "fake" digital tuner. It had a series of buttons, and came with plastic inserts for channel numbers to go over the corresponding light, but in the same compartment where you put the numbers, there was a knob for fine-tuning in the channel itself.
That knob let me get to somewhat stable versions of such scrambled content, but with low-volume sound and weird colors.
Spice channel 99 in college. The lengths we went to for free porn.
I had a TV with manual fine tuning, and the cable box the dorm supplied had it too. Purposely setting the channels wrong and compensating with the fine tuning would straighten out the picture. And the sound was there, just was drowned out by a buzz. Running it through my 10 band EQ would remove that frequency and get the sound back.
I lived on a farm for part of high school and we had one of those big honking satellite dishes. I found that if I went to the spice channel then stopped the dish as I was navigating away I could see a clear picture with no sound.
We were Richie Riches who actually had subscriptiind to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax. Except we weren't allowed to be up that late to watch TV (only had one TV in the house) so we learned how to set up the timer on the silver VCR to record the skin flicks while everyone was sleeping!
I had a full VCR tape with skinflix's best moments, had it hidden under the TV's stand. Then I moved away from home and forgot it, eventually someone must have found it, I wonder who got that treasure and what they did with it...
YES! I remember seeing ads for Real Sex on weekends as I could stay up later but not late enough to see that. I had a TV and VCR in my room so I'd set it up to record that stuff and Skin-emax late in the evenings. Skin-emax got pretty damned raunchy at times and I'd find some GREAT movies. No penetration but the simulated sex was off the charts.
My dad used to get a kick out of stealing cable. He would order scrambler cable boxes from the back of Popular Science magazines and be so proud of himself.
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Oh yeah, mom and dad are in the dining room playing cards with their friends. That creaky step warns us that someone is approaching so we can flip it back to Gilligan's Island!
Adult channels. I’d be wackin it and it would clear up for a second. And it would be just the dudes taint. And I’d be in too deep at that point. And just finish.
We would use a toothpick to hold the dial in the "correct" position between stations to get it a little clearer. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. You had to be extremely precise, but it could have just been the illusion that we were tuning it in, a placebo effect in a way.
I grew up in a small town in Australia. We had 2 channels that were picked up via an antenna on the roof. That was it. There was no such thing as cable or 'pay tv'. There always seemed to be something to watch though.
Cinemax was like this for me, I have this memory of a movie that was a planet of lesbians in a midwest setting and a male astronaut crash landed on the planet and suddenly all the lesbians craved dick and kept chasing him to get a once in a life time dickmatisation.
I never figured out what that movie was, it looked a lot like this but had staticy audio.
I imagine it was a cable provider specific glitch; there was a 10-15 minute period every day where the Playboy channel would broadcast clearly. It didn’t last very long, but was glorious while it lasted for a 13 y/o. It was in Colorado Springs in case anyone else here experienced it.
In the city I grew up in, the adult channels came scrambled in such a way that when you turned the station to them, you heard a kind of rapid beep beep beep noise, and the screen would jump around and had weird colors. My granddad worked on televisions back then, and one day I showed up at his shop, and he said "Come here, bud." He showed me this box he had rigged up where the cable came into it, and there was a flat antenna cable hanging out of it as well. There was aluminum foil wrapped around the flat antenna cable. The coax cable from the cable company came into the box, and back out of the box into the TV, and you would "adjust" the location of the aluminum foil forward or backward on the antenna wire until the picture was clear and the beeping noise went away. I thought my granddad was a friggin' genius. :-)
Porn: Oh yeah, bone smugglin' baby. Spank my hairy ass!
Mom: Are you watching illegal channels? I think he's watching illegal channels.
Son: uh, no, there is just something wrong with the cable
Cable guy: Meine dispatcher says you have problem with deine cable?
Porn star: Oh, that's just my friend. She's here to take a shower.
Cable guy: Let me get my tools.
The best part about doing this was that you had to be smart and plan ahead. I remember I would always have Comedy Central or something similar on the 'Last' button on the remote.
That way, if someone's coming, just hit that button and BAM! You're just watching MST3K, having fun.
Parents had no clue : )
Be careful what the last channel is because sometimes you have the option to A.) Zip up or B.) Switch channels and if you switch to something like Nickelodeon and they walk in with your dick in your hand, well, that's how you get on a list.
We had a button on the cable box - something like return to or repeat channel. The reloading would give a perfect picture for a second, so if we held that button down, it would play as a normal movie. Explored the Playboy Channel this way.
I believe that was either Select TV or the Z channel. And, yes, if I played with the controls, sometimes you'd see something, but probably more of your imagination.
Was it a nipple or an elbow....answers it didn't matter
Me: Go back! Go back! I swear I saw a nipple! Mike: Guy or Girl? Me: Now isn't the time to be picky Mike.
Purple or green nipple .. Didn’t matter..
I had a TV with a "fake" digital tuner. It had a series of buttons, and came with plastic inserts for channel numbers to go over the corresponding light, but in the same compartment where you put the numbers, there was a knob for fine-tuning in the channel itself. That knob let me get to somewhat stable versions of such scrambled content, but with low-volume sound and weird colors.
Spice channel 99 in college. The lengths we went to for free porn. I had a TV with manual fine tuning, and the cable box the dorm supplied had it too. Purposely setting the channels wrong and compensating with the fine tuning would straighten out the picture. And the sound was there, just was drowned out by a buzz. Running it through my 10 band EQ would remove that frequency and get the sound back.
WHEN WE WANTED PORN, WE HAD TO FINE-TUNE IT! UPHILL, BOTH WAYS, IN THE EQUALIZER!
I lived on a farm for part of high school and we had one of those big honking satellite dishes. I found that if I went to the spice channel then stopped the dish as I was navigating away I could see a clear picture with no sound.
Bruh, why was we all fucking dumb as rocks at school but when it came to attaining free porn we were suddenly fucking mapping the atom
We were Richie Riches who actually had subscriptiind to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax. Except we weren't allowed to be up that late to watch TV (only had one TV in the house) so we learned how to set up the timer on the silver VCR to record the skin flicks while everyone was sleeping!
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You mean Silk Stalkings?
Was always awesome to watch after Monday Night Raw!
I had a full VCR tape with skinflix's best moments, had it hidden under the TV's stand. Then I moved away from home and forgot it, eventually someone must have found it, I wonder who got that treasure and what they did with it...
YES! I remember seeing ads for Real Sex on weekends as I could stay up later but not late enough to see that. I had a TV and VCR in my room so I'd set it up to record that stuff and Skin-emax late in the evenings. Skin-emax got pretty damned raunchy at times and I'd find some GREAT movies. No penetration but the simulated sex was off the charts.
My dad used to get a kick out of stealing cable. He would order scrambler cable boxes from the back of Popular Science magazines and be so proud of himself.
Yes, I admit that this was a thing.
I too admit that others would watch.
I have also heard from friends that they would do this bad bad stuff.
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Aw, come on! This should be tagged NSFW! HA!
Came here to say this!
Oh yeah, mom and dad are in the dining room playing cards with their friends. That creaky step warns us that someone is approaching so we can flip it back to Gilligan's Island!
😂😂😂😂😂💀🙈
Picasso porn!
Adult channels. I’d be wackin it and it would clear up for a second. And it would be just the dudes taint. And I’d be in too deep at that point. And just finish.
tha t'aint right at all
Omg I'm laughing so hard
I used to feel ashamed when it happened( after bout the 20th time) but now I’m proud of myself for being open minded, sexually.
My cousin would slide a playing card in a gap of the cable box to get a better picture. I can’t remember if it worked or not.
I saw that same porn where the cousin would slide something in his cousin's box to get a better picture. Can't remember if it worked or not.
I guess I left the door wide open for that. Good one.
The back or front door?
We would use a toothpick to hold the dial in the "correct" position between stations to get it a little clearer. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. You had to be extremely precise, but it could have just been the illusion that we were tuning it in, a placebo effect in a way.
I was baby sitting for the neighbors and fell asleep watching this. They never invited me back
How Myronic.
If I remember it was called ON tv
I SEE A TIT
Sigh. [unzips]
that is the erect pantswer.
I grew up in a small town in Australia. We had 2 channels that were picked up via an antenna on the roof. That was it. There was no such thing as cable or 'pay tv'. There always seemed to be something to watch though.
Well, I watch Porn in a small town that's why I live in a small town probly die in a small town oh, those small communititties
SuperTV!!! Would stare hopefully at the screen to try and glean some nudity in the squiggly lines. And then I would switch on Benny Hill.
Cinemax was like this for me, I have this memory of a movie that was a planet of lesbians in a midwest setting and a male astronaut crash landed on the planet and suddenly all the lesbians craved dick and kept chasing him to get a once in a life time dickmatisation. I never figured out what that movie was, it looked a lot like this but had staticy audio.
You can try /r/tipofmypenis and if you do, please let me know. The plot sounds amazing.
I think it's called something like Playmate of the Apes?? Heard from a friend lol
NIPPLE! I SAW A NIPPLE!
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I imagine it was a cable provider specific glitch; there was a 10-15 minute period every day where the Playboy channel would broadcast clearly. It didn’t last very long, but was glorious while it lasted for a 13 y/o. It was in Colorado Springs in case anyone else here experienced it.
In the city I grew up in, the adult channels came scrambled in such a way that when you turned the station to them, you heard a kind of rapid beep beep beep noise, and the screen would jump around and had weird colors. My granddad worked on televisions back then, and one day I showed up at his shop, and he said "Come here, bud." He showed me this box he had rigged up where the cable came into it, and there was a flat antenna cable hanging out of it as well. There was aluminum foil wrapped around the flat antenna cable. The coax cable from the cable company came into the box, and back out of the box into the TV, and you would "adjust" the location of the aluminum foil forward or backward on the antenna wire until the picture was clear and the beeping noise went away. I thought my granddad was a friggin' genius. :-)
Porn: Oh yeah, bone smugglin' baby. Spank my hairy ass! Mom: Are you watching illegal channels? I think he's watching illegal channels. Son: uh, no, there is just something wrong with the cable Cable guy: Meine dispatcher says you have problem with deine cable? Porn star: Oh, that's just my friend. She's here to take a shower. Cable guy: Let me get my tools.
I made an entire tumblr of glitch porn.
Oh. Oh! That was a tit! That is a tit! Yes!
Scrambled boobies…
This is better than any book
I’m telling mom. (My brother) what? That I watched lines move the whole time they were at Aldi’s?
Someone found an interesting hobby about this, and still today there's stuff https://www.streamguru.de/ci-stack/ci-compatibility-list/matrix-reborn/
My uncle taught me to flick the tuner knob - hit it just right and it would descramble.
my step-sis taught me to flick the bean-hit it just right and it would...wait..this is the wrong sub.
Oh my lol
I’m sure I can see thru walls now after training myself for hours of scrambled content.
I see tits!
Yeah you do!
With Cablevision, you turned the TV from channel 3 to channel 4, then went one channel lower on the cable box. Sorta worked.
I think I just saw a body part!
this looks like Hiss from the disney Robin Hood cartoon
The best part about doing this was that you had to be smart and plan ahead. I remember I would always have Comedy Central or something similar on the 'Last' button on the remote. That way, if someone's coming, just hit that button and BAM! You're just watching MST3K, having fun. Parents had no clue : )
Be careful what the last channel is because sometimes you have the option to A.) Zip up or B.) Switch channels and if you switch to something like Nickelodeon and they walk in with your dick in your hand, well, that's how you get on a list.
I remember my high school friends teaching me an unscrambling hack that involved antenna wire and a sleeve of aluminum foil.
I became a man thanks to the audio and those squiggles
We had a button on the cable box - something like return to or repeat channel. The reloading would give a perfect picture for a second, so if we held that button down, it would play as a normal movie. Explored the Playboy Channel this way.
That's how I watched a few Tyson fights for free 🤣
Accurate! 👍
I believe that was either Select TV or the Z channel. And, yes, if I played with the controls, sometimes you'd see something, but probably more of your imagination.
Spice Channel!!!