Oct 14, 2018 · In 1973-74 with HBO the box was a brownish thing with a black button and red button on top. Put input cable in box then output cable to TV set to channel 3 push red button and HBO is engaged. Around 1977 or so the box had only Showtime, HBO was not …

Feb 29, 2008 · HBO was born in November, 1972 and initially used microwave to broadcast its signal. On December 13, 1975, HBO began broadcasting via satellite - just in time to show the famous "Thrilla in Manilla" boxing match between Joe Frazier and Mohammad Ali.

On September 27, 2018, HBO announced it would cease airing its boxing telecasts after 45 years—marking the end of competitive sports event broadcasts on the network—following the October 27 edition of HBO World Championship Boxing.

Jun 13, 2023 · Well before the era of “Game of Thrones” and “Westworld,” HBO (which stands for Home Box Office, though it’s been a long time since anyone has referred to the service that way) was just a dream — an ambitious venture tucked away in a small office in Manhattan.

In the early 1980s, in the suburbs of New York City, if you wanted cable, you got this box. Protip: if you switch the left dial to the top level, and pressed 7 and 5 simultaneously, you get HBO.

Oct 29, 2019 · My first tv was old when I got it in the 90's: a 10" B&W off-brand set with UHF and VHF knobs. I got cable through a gray plastic box that put all the channels onto the UHF and had a little conversion chart. My "remote" was a plastic squeezie thing that made a hissing/whistling sound that would turn the power to the set on or off.

The cable box at my friends' house could be altered to get all of the pay channels if you slipped a piece of paper into the top of the box. There were metal "forks" that completed a circuit with the top of the box that blocked the pay channels.

Jan 8, 2022 · We had an antenna on the roof and a small box on top of the tv with an on/off switch. Anyone else? We did. We had a duplex, and I could see it on the roof if I walked up the block.

Oct 14, 2018 · We had a similar box somewhere in the late 70s. It was an upgrade with the switch on the left side to select the row and a fine tuning knob on the right. There was also a separate "descrambler" box for HBO. My neighborhood had cable starting in 1973.

Feb 15, 2017 · And I thought the cable boxes from my childhood were old school. We had one of these which let you get 36 channels by flipping that little switch on the left to three different positions. I will always remember HBO as channel 24.