I was watching the AMC6 HD feed via my Azbox on TV, but at the same time, I had one of those 4.2.2 scpc feeds up on my laptop, ie one of those channels that sequences between different views of the shuttle (I think these are for the benefit of contractors to watch various items that they are responsible for). When the shuttle went up, I looked down at the laptop, and all of the views were virtually blank, with a white smoke. Pretty funny. It took a good 5 minutes for the views to clear up, now showing the same view minus the shuttle. I was kind of amazed that the cameras didn't burn up during the launch, but perhaps they were further away than they appeared to be.
These contractor views used to be aired on an analog channel before DVB became popular. Back then, they put different cameras on different frames of the NTSC video, so that with normal TVs, the screen looked like it was a scrambled picture. However back then I had a Sony XBR TV that was capable of split screen, and I had a way to trick it into putting one frame on each side of the side by side PIP screen, which back then was pretty neat. When I replaced that TV with a newer XBR though, I could no longer get the trick to work. Nice to have those things viewable again via the scpc DVB channels.
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