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⏲ Duration: 12 min 30 sec ✓ Published: 30-Jun-2011
Description: This video is beautifully odd and needs explaining.nnSometime in the early 1990s - I forget quite when - I stumbled across this late one night on BBC2. It was playing on a loop, and I was mesmerised. I knew it was inherently cool, so I recorded it on a VHS tape I had to hand on my mum's already quite aged VCR.nnSeveral years back I found out what the hell it was - BBC Engineering were testing analogue scrambling of terrestrial signals for the short-lived (1992-1994) BBC Select. The scrambling wa
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