Make sure to hit last, channel up, last. Foolish proof. I’ll never get caught.
This guy faps.
Here I thought I was the only one this clever.
I remember having to crack the PIN code to access the locked channels (which would just give me access to things like skinemax late at night). I faked sick one day to stay home and set to work. I think there was a short timeout after a few failed attempts, so you could only go so fast. It only took 852 tries but I got it! It was 0852, which was just a straight line up the keypad 😑
That’s way more dedication to a nut then I’ve ever had
This makes me realize if I pick a code it had to start with a 9
My dad got these black market cable boxes from one of his less than reputable friends way back when. We got literally everything, including full porn channels that weren’t scrambled. They were technically blocked by my parents, but the family pincode was well known.
I used to watch the porn channels and never could figure out why they were so… Meh for me. Turns out, very gay. Lol
Once my parents split up we didn’t have those boxes anymore, and I used to watch Cat House and went through the same “why is this so frustratingly close to being good” experience lol
I do believe it was a 4001 Diode soldered between pins 5 and 7; got everything but HBO…
Used to have all my friends over for the WWF pay-per-views.
In Canada, we had “Bleu Nuit”. It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from 1.5 hour long naked lesbian makeout to a single scene with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn’t even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don’t speak much French.)
This, and the really long late night Girls Gone Wild commercials on Comedy Central. I think the first thing I ever pirated was a GGW video, lmao.
You fool, mother could also just hit “last” and catch you in both deceit AND boobin
y’all remember that vcr trick that you could unscramble all the PPV channels… golden times… golden times.
Wait. what black magic is this? 12 year old me desperately wants to know.
I have no idea. If you recorded something on vhs it didn’t play it back unscrambled did it?
so what you did was set your vcr to the ppv channel you wanted. and then kept flipping between channel 3 and 4 on the TV until it just unscrambled it. It apparently had to do with the vcr’s ability to like fix when old vhs tapes would get wonky and like have mess and like lines. the color wasn’t always right… but for free WWF (i’m that old) ppv and… well pron… it was great.
the real hero is in the comments, 25 years later…
Brilliant maneuvering
Dunno how replies notify… but I replied to a reply on your reply.
<_<’
Told my mom we should keep Cinemax because they had good movies coming up.
