A very early Sky advert for the Amstrad-Fidelity receiver
A piece of history here :-) This appears to be a catalogue advert for
one of the first Amstrad satellite receivers. I think it is an Amstrad SRX200 receiver
which had the remote control included with it. The earlier version - the SRX 100 - didnt
have a remote control....
The date must have been somewhere round summer 1989. This receiver could only handle 16 channels, and was therefore only really suitable for the 16 Astra 1A channels.
I have mislaid my notes as to who sent me this, so my apologies to the contributor. Email me & let me know and of course you will get the credit.
Although the text is very hard to read - even before being compressed for the web page, some of the more interesting stuff reads:
8 CHANNELS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO WATCH TODAY IN ADDITION TO THE USUAL BBC1, BBC2, ITV AND CHANNEL 4 GIVING YOU A GRAND TOTAL OF 12 CHANNELS TO SELECT FROM AND THERE IS MORE TO COME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SATELLITE TELEVISION
The new channels from Sky Television Network
are SKY CHANNEL the general interest channel for everyone.
SKY TV NEWS 24 hours a day service of news, analysis and discussion of current affairs.
EUROSPORT for all the best of international sporting action.
SKY MOVIES an outstanding service giving you most of the major cinema releases.
ARTS CHANNEL for unrivalled coverage of theatre music and the arts.
Additionally there is LIFESTYLE a programme designed to appeal to women who wish daytime
entertainment
SCREENSPORT (too blurred to read)
MTV 24 hour a day pop videos.
At present you can receive all the SKY channels free of charge and four of them will continue to be free. However from Autumn, or Spring 1990, Sky are planning to charge a monthly subscription for Sky Movies
16 channel pre set channel selection
Push button channel operation, remote control model also available
12 months parts & labour
Full installation included
And the cost of this wonderul new development in Audio Visual entertainment??
Non remote control model..... £349.95
Remote control model..... £399.95
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