Atn Filmnet Decoder

EE July/August 1987 ATN FILMNET DECODER by J R v Terborgh Believe it or not, but a few days after our May issue was sent to the printers, the engineers at ATN Filmnet altered the station"s scrambling system. The next thing that happened was Sky Channel abandoning encoding altogether for roughly a fortnight. An article written for naught and circuits doomed to end up in the junkbox? Here is the updata! The speed at which dramatic changes take place in the satel- lite TV world is very hard to keep up with. After the publi- cation of "", we saw Europa TV dissappear and their 3WH transponder temporarily as- signed to 3-SAT, Music Box change into Super Channel, and ATN Filmnet adopt the Matsushita scrambling system, all on ECS-1. The launch of the DBS services for Federal Germany and France was post- poned for the umpteenth time, the flat dish was developed to aid in individual reception, Europe witnessed an invasion of relatively inexpensive LNBs of Far Eastern origin, and many of our...