VideoCipher is a brand name of analog scrambling and de-scrambling equipment for cable and satellite television invented primarily to enforce Television...
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General Instrument (section VideoCipher Division)
purchased VideoCipher, who had developed the industry-standard system for scrambling and decoding satellite television signals, VideoCipher II. This product...
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much like the VideoCipher and VideoCipher II systems were used for analog encrypted transmissions. By the time when analogue VideoCipher II channels are...
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analog satellite television receivers. VideoCipher I (deprecated) VideoCipher II (deprecated) VideoCipher II+ VideoCipher II RS (Renewable Security) DigiCipher...
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possibility of encoding their feeds with VideoCipher II. With PBS planning to encode their feeds with VideoCipher II, home-dish viewers of PBS’s feeds began...
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(DBSA). Videocipher II used analog scrambling on its video signal and Data Encryption Standard–based encryption on its audio signal. VideoCipher II was...
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HBO and Cinemax began encrypting their west coast feeds services with VideoCipher II 12 hours a day early in 1985, then did the same with their east coast...
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conditional-access modules. Conditional access systems include: EuroCrypt Nagravision Videocipher VideoCrypt Access control, the same principle applied outside of television...
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(DBSA). Videocipher II used analog scrambling on its video signal and Data Encryption Standard based encryption on its audio signal. VideoCipher II was...
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broken by brute force. 1983 DES is reaffirmed for the first time 1986 Videocipher II, a TV satellite scrambling system based upon DES, begins use by HBO...
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InfoCipher 1500P satmodem technology. The InfoCipher modem was an add-on to VideoCipher II+/RS TVRO receivers and received the data at 9600 bits per second....
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video encryption system which was derived from the General Instruments VideoCipher system used in the USA. One of the main selling points of the BSB offering...
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April 1986. The attack was directed at HBO for their adoption of the Videocipher system and for charging high prices for access to the HBO and Cinemax...
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carrying the President of Brazil Vickers VC.1 Viking, a British aircraft Videocipher 1, an analogue broadcast encoder First Vatican Council, a Catholic Church...
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DirecTV, Astra or DishTV fixed service satellite (FSS) applications like VideoCipher, DigiCipher, or PowerVu digital audio radio satellite (DARS) applications...
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commerce in the 1990s created additional pressure for reduced restrictions. VideoCipher II also used DES to scramble satellite TV audio. In 1989, non-encryption...
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Communications and would keep this name until 1984 when it was merged with VideoCipher into a new subsidiary called GI Communications. However, the Jerrold...
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announced plans to scramble the HBO and Cinemax satellite feeds using the Videocipher II encryption system, becoming the first satellite-delivered television...
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1980s. In November 1980, Linkabit was still doing testing for SATNET. VideoCipher, an analog scrambling system for television, was developed by the Linkabit...
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encryption system which was based heavily on the General Instruments VideoCipher system used in the US. While the BSB's broadcast standard and system...
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the first to have their signals scrambled from the outset, using the Videocipher II encryption system as well as the second and third EMI-delivered superstations...
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Inc. Virtual channel identifier, in telecommunications VideoCipher I, a variant of the Videocipher scrambling system Volatile corrosion inhibitor or vapor...
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dishes, but after the launch, their broadcasts were scrambled using Videocipher. PT Matahari Lintas Cakrawala (abbreviated as Malicak) was originally...
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or to specific political regions. Early encryption attempts such as Videocipher II were common targets for pirate decryption as dismayed viewers saw...
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Channel Master was the only second source for General Instrument (GI)'s Videocipher II module, a building block for satellite television receivers, under...
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world Virtua Cop 2, a light gun arcade game by Sega released in 1995 VideoCipher 2, a television receive-only (TVRO) scrambling system publicly launched...
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Diego firm M/A-COM Linkabit was chosen over Oak to develop what became VideoCipher II, the industry standard. The previous management made some bad investments...
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