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I regret to say that I
remember little about Buying Satellite magazine, except that I wrote a fair few
articles for it between 1993 and 1995. It was during the first flush of the
home satellite TV and I was writing on the same topic for perhaps half
a dozen other magazines so it was all a bit of a blur. I suspect that when I
eventually complete this section of the archive I’ll find that I was reviewing and writing about the same pieces of equipment for several magazines at the same time, sometimes under
different names (magazine editors used to get quite touchy about that sort of
thing). I was always very careful, though, and although the product was the
same I always tailored the article or review to the magazine and its
readership.
Anyway, back to satellite TV and in the early 1990s it was
just starting to take off in a big way. As so often happens it was the
most exciting part of the technology’s life-cycle with lots of innovative and
wacky products and plenty of mistakes and dead ends. More importantly it marked the beginning of multi-channel TV in the UK -- remember up until then we only had four terrestrial channels --- paving the way for today's digital multimedia revolution.
There is much more to say about satellite TV, though,
particularly the period before Astra, Sky and minidishes. This is part of my
archive that I’m really looking forward to compiling, a crazy time when I
had no less than five 2-metre dishes set up in my back garden, but that's another story...
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