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  2. Hammersmith Apollo - Wikipedia

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    The date also commissioned the venue's new name, Eventim Apollo. On 19 April 2014 Adam Ant performed his former band Adam and the Ants' debut album Dirk Wears White Sox live in its entirety with a band including former Ants Dave Barbarossa (from the original album) and Leigh Gorman. This was released in 2015 as concert film Dirk Live At The Apollo.

  3. Converter/descrambler - Wikipedia

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    When a descrambler is added to the Cable Converter Box in the same chassis, it is referred to as a Converter/Descrambler or sometimes a Combination Unit, and is a type of Set-top box, it allows : local broadcast channels, basic cable channels, authorized premium channels, "Pay-Per-View" (PPV), and “Video On Demand” (VOD) services to be viewed.

  4. Videocipher - Wikipedia

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    Videocipher II satellite descrambler stand-alone box sold by General Instrument. VideoCipher is a brand name of analog scrambling and de-scrambling equipment for cable and satellite television invented primarily to enforce Television receive-only (TVRO) satellite equipment to only receive TV programming on a subscription basis.

  5. Cable television piracy - Wikipedia

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    Other ways of cable theft were using a cable TV converter box (also known as a descrambler or "black box") to steal all channels and decrypt pay-per-view events, whereas a normal converter would only decrypt the ones paid for by the customer. The cable companies could send an electronic signal, called a "bullet", that would render illegal ...

  6. Apollo Telescope Mount - Wikipedia

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    Astronaut Paul J. Weitz at the telescope's command and display (C&D) console inside Skylab during the mission (June 1973) [3]. The ATM was one of the projects that came out of the late 1960s Apollo Applications Program, which studied a wide variety of ways to use the infrastructure developed for the Apollo program in the 1970s.

  7. List of NASA cameras on spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    Space Shuttle astronaut Kenneth Cockrell with a digital Nikon NASA F4 HERCULES Reflected in the visor is the camera used for this astronaut "selfie" Astronaut Christopher Cassidy holding a camera while on EVA (Space-walk) NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.

  8. Television encryption - Wikipedia

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    The prevention of piracy on cable and satellite networks has been one of the main factors in the development of Pay TV encryption systems. The early cable-based Pay TV networks used no security. This led to problems with people connecting to the network without paying. Consequently, some methods were developed to frustrate these self-connectors.

  9. Wometco Home Theater - Wikipedia

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    Wometco Home Theater (WHT) was an early pay television service in the New York City area that was owned by Miami-based Wometco Enterprises, which owned several major network affiliates in mid-sized media markets and its flagship WTVJ in Miami (then a CBS affiliate on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6).