It is a Library track called Futuredome by Nicolo Bardoni & Stephen Warr. Of course used as the theme to Video Hits.
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I have never seen this. 
There’s tonnes of stock music on YouTube from the 1970s to the 1990s. It’s like a trip down memory lane.
For what people including myself have forgotten, Movie Extra (was part of Movie Network Channels) ran a movie marathon called Movies That Matter.
So Rhett’s posted some ads from Sports AFL back in April of '98, and it appears that by that time there were three SportsVision channels on OptusVision; Sports Australia (12), Sports AFL (13), and Sports Australia 2 (14).
I always assumed Sports AFL was turned into Sports Australia 2 before they all got turned into C7 Sport.
Does anyone know when Ch 14 on Optus changed from TNT to Sports Australia 2?
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Galaxy! Those were the days.
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Thanks to some recorded channel surfing, I can try and piece together the Galaxy (Canberra) channel lineup on November 18, 1995:
Channel 2: ABC
Channel 3: SBS
Channel 4: Prime/Seven
Channel 5: WIN/Nine:
Channel 6: Ten/Capital:
Channel 7: Premier Sports Network
Channel 8: Showtime
Channel 9: Encore
Channel 10: TV1
Channel 11: Arena
Channel 12: Red
Channel 13: Nickelodeon
Channel 14: Discovery Channel
This may not have been a part of the original line up but was in circa 1996:
Channel 18: Comedy Channel
And Fox Sports in place of PSN on Channel 7:
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CNBC (the channel with the share prices ticker at the bottom of screen) and BBC World were not pictured but were part of the Galaxy lineup back then, also World Movies was available for an extra cost.
were they running Night Movies than too? (the softcore porn channel that ran from midnight to 5 am or something)
Can anyone help validate a story I was told as a kid?
My uncle used to work in a pub back in the 90s where they had a paid Sky channel subscription for the races (as most pubs did/do). He used to tell a story where he would be contacted by Sky warning them to change channels or turn off receivers at certain times, as they would do a “burn” (his words) of the channel to weed out illegal viewers. Apparently whatever they did with this “burn” was intended to wreck their decoder boxes to ensure only the paid subscribers could watch the service.
Was that a thing? Or something he might have embellished/my childhood brain made up?
Sounds like sci-fi. There’s no way they could do that.
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The only thing they used to do I know of is change the code so that naughty cards would be rendered useless - until someone worked the code out and shared it across the web, which usually only took a few hours.
Allegedly of course. 
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Yeah the more I think about it, the more I think it’s likely utter BS. But it was a cool story at the time.
Yeah I remember those days (with friends that had pay TV - we were too cheap to ever get it at our house). The magic cards you could buy off a friend of a friend that would give you access to all channels for a period of time.
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