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I remember calling Media General in the late 1990s to tell them these ancient boxes were no longer necessary because I owned a cable ready television and the lady who answered the phone told me something to the effect of... "Well life is not fair sometimes young man."
Then she hung up on me.
What a bitch.
LOL
By the mid/late 1980s this was the only scenario where one of the Media General boxes was necessary.
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So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:38AM
I remember calling Media General in the late 1990s to tell them these ancient boxes were no longer necessary because I owned a cable ready television and the lady who answered the phone told me something to the effect of... "Well life is not fair sometimes young man."
Then she hung up on me.
What a bitch.
LOL
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Dr. Anal
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:54AM
Fifteen years of butthurt.
What a pain in the ass.
Move on.
What a pain in the ass.
Move on.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
OP.
()
Date: July 12, 2015 02:20AM
Dr. Anal Wrote:
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> Fifteen years of butthurt.
>
> What a pain in the ass.
>
> Move on.
The foolishness may have carried over to 2001 or 2002.
I do not remember because I jumped ship to satellite by then.
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> Fifteen years of butthurt.
>
> What a pain in the ass.
>
> Move on.
The foolishness may have carried over to 2001 or 2002.
I do not remember because I jumped ship to satellite by then.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
I hope your broke
()
Date: July 12, 2015 09:34AM
Media general cable boxes with the 2 cables lol.
Biggest crooks in fairfax county. I pray everyday that they go bankrupt
Biggest crooks in fairfax county. I pray everyday that they go bankrupt
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Turn It Over - Let It Go
()
Date: July 12, 2015 09:45AM
Why do you still have the box and remote? It is best to let resentments go. This one is burning you up.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Late Night Adult Programming
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:10PM
Beats having an antenna stuck on your roof like Super TV or satellite.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Hi Tech
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:19PM
Anybody who uses any kind of box from the cable company is a loser. TiVo and cablecards FTW!!!
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
YCdux
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:28PM
Wow, I thought those were an artifact from the eighties or early nineties at the very latest.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:48PM
YCdux Wrote:
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> Wow, I thought those were an artifact from the
> eighties or early nineties at the very latest.
They were still being used as recently as they year 2000. They were a requirement.
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> Wow, I thought those were an artifact from the
> eighties or early nineties at the very latest.
They were still being used as recently as they year 2000. They were a requirement.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:55PM
Hi Tech Wrote:
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> Anybody who uses any kind of box from the cable
> company is a loser. TiVo and cablecards FTW!!!
When Media General was the only gig in town I guarantee you would not have said that nonsense.
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> Anybody who uses any kind of box from the cable
> company is a loser. TiVo and cablecards FTW!!!
When Media General was the only gig in town I guarantee you would not have said that nonsense.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Problem Solved
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:56PM
What is Media General?
Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:57PM
Late Night Adult Programming Wrote:
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> Beats having an antenna stuck on your roof like
> Super TV or satellite.
True. I never lost my signal during inclement weather.
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> Beats having an antenna stuck on your roof like
> Super TV or satellite.
True. I never lost my signal during inclement weather.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 01:58PM
Problem Solved Wrote:
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> What is Media General?
>
> Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
Are you a fucking transplant who just moved here recently and is contributing to our traffic congestion?
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> What is Media General?
>
> Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
Are you a fucking transplant who just moved here recently and is contributing to our traffic congestion?
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 02:08PM
I hope your broke Wrote:
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> Media general cable boxes with the 2 cables lol.
>
> Biggest crooks in fairfax county. I pray everyday
> that they go bankrupt
Those brown boxes should have been out of commission as far back as the mid/late 1980s but somehow Media General found a way to squeeze an additional 15 years out of them.
Whats worse is the county knew this and still allowed it.
To this very day the words Media General get my blood boiling!!!!!
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> Media general cable boxes with the 2 cables lol.
>
> Biggest crooks in fairfax county. I pray everyday
> that they go bankrupt
Those brown boxes should have been out of commission as far back as the mid/late 1980s but somehow Media General found a way to squeeze an additional 15 years out of them.
Whats worse is the county knew this and still allowed it.
To this very day the words Media General get my blood boiling!!!!!
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
jnjnjn
()
Date: July 12, 2015 02:34PM
My brother had one with the descrambler. He never paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't even a subscriber.
Good times.
Good times.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:25PM
jnjnjn Wrote:
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I forgot the exact fee each month for each box per customer but I think it was around $3-4 a month per box in addition to the cable bill. So people who wanted 2 boxes (one for the living room & one for the bedroom) had to pay double. $3-4 a month minimum for 12 months adds up. Now just multiply that number several thousand time for each customer and it is obvious why Media Genera wanted for those boxes to stay in rotation for as long as humanly possible.
Kudos to your brother for ripping them off for 7 years.
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I forgot the exact fee each month for each box per customer but I think it was around $3-4 a month per box in addition to the cable bill. So people who wanted 2 boxes (one for the living room & one for the bedroom) had to pay double. $3-4 a month minimum for 12 months adds up. Now just multiply that number several thousand time for each customer and it is obvious why Media Genera wanted for those boxes to stay in rotation for as long as humanly possible.
Kudos to your brother for ripping them off for 7 years.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:31PM
In today's era of hundreds of channels receiver boxes are a necessity again but there was a span of time during the cable ready television era where the cable offerings were less than 100 channels so therefore those receiver boxes were not necessary.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
WFH4p
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:42PM
nice you found the add with all the asian tv's
how about GE tv's, on popular made-in-usa brand, they were very popular then. the sony were good but didn't sell well because they were more expensive and taking them to the tv repair shop was more expensive
USA started the tv trend not asia - asia slowly dumped cheap labor in the market to control the market
where are your GE ads?
how about GE tv's, on popular made-in-usa brand, they were very popular then. the sony were good but didn't sell well because they were more expensive and taking them to the tv repair shop was more expensive
USA started the tv trend not asia - asia slowly dumped cheap labor in the market to control the market
where are your GE ads?
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
VLCTT
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:45PM
the new cable boxes still "drive" old "non cable ready" TVs
i'm unsure the new cable boxes even support "digital output" (meaning, TCP output to asian flatscreen tv's) in a way customers can use
your full of shit
i'm unsure the new cable boxes even support "digital output" (meaning, TCP output to asian flatscreen tv's) in a way customers can use
your full of shit
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:46PM
WFH4p Wrote:
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> nice you found the add with all the asian tv's
>
> how about GE tv's, on popular made-in-usa brand,
> they were very popular then. the sony were good
> but didn't sell well because they were more
> expensive and taking them to the tv repair shop
> was more expensive
>
> USA started the tv trend not asia - asia slowly
> dumped cheap labor in the market to control the
> market
>
> where are your GE ads?
They are just random adds I found online.
It was not meant to discredit any brand over another.
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> nice you found the add with all the asian tv's
>
> how about GE tv's, on popular made-in-usa brand,
> they were very popular then. the sony were good
> but didn't sell well because they were more
> expensive and taking them to the tv repair shop
> was more expensive
>
> USA started the tv trend not asia - asia slowly
> dumped cheap labor in the market to control the
> market
>
> where are your GE ads?
They are just random adds I found online.
It was not meant to discredit any brand over another.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
wNbJe
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:48PM
the boxes are still "signal blockers", blocking tv reception from the home not enabling it
any PC is perfectly capable of TCP/IP listening to an MPEG-STREAM, if they are not encryption blocked from doign so, and have a guide telling them when to tune in
anyone remember Steve Jobs famous MPEG stream broadcast?
again, your full of crap. today's iphone,tablet, or pc connected to a flatscreen has ALL IT NEEDS to tune into INFINITE NUMBER OF BROADCASTS, meaning - any broadcasts that are not blocked by COX cable and or telephone companies from end-pointing to the consumers paying the bills
any PC is perfectly capable of TCP/IP listening to an MPEG-STREAM, if they are not encryption blocked from doign so, and have a guide telling them when to tune in
anyone remember Steve Jobs famous MPEG stream broadcast?
again, your full of crap. today's iphone,tablet, or pc connected to a flatscreen has ALL IT NEEDS to tune into INFINITE NUMBER OF BROADCASTS, meaning - any broadcasts that are not blocked by COX cable and or telephone companies from end-pointing to the consumers paying the bills
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
mP7eG
()
Date: July 12, 2015 03:55PM
DVD is just MPEG with java support, which is OLD OLD OLD NEWS
MPEG lowers the quality of broadcast - deleting colors and pixel motions, but does save allot of bandwidth
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old tv's tuners cannot work with COX boxes they said "tough luck throw away"
newer tv's tuners (ie, early 90's) have analog signal decoders that "were good enough"
but the ONLY REASON people stuck with TVs instead of PC Montitors: cost, PCs were expensive - and monitors the size of a TV: $2000 - $6000
Today: same shit either way same price. no need for a cable box
MPEG lowers the quality of broadcast - deleting colors and pixel motions, but does save allot of bandwidth
------------------
old tv's tuners cannot work with COX boxes they said "tough luck throw away"
newer tv's tuners (ie, early 90's) have analog signal decoders that "were good enough"
but the ONLY REASON people stuck with TVs instead of PC Montitors: cost, PCs were expensive - and monitors the size of a TV: $2000 - $6000
Today: same shit either way same price. no need for a cable box
In europe (ie, germany) some cable companies give free access to "tv" to laptops - no box required
For that to work one needs a minimally capable internet router and mutlimedia PC. However. democrats have continually fucked over that same technology to attack the ability of PCs to operate as "valid set top boxes". they dont want competition. and NY,NY still wants to be the only provider of stock trading listing and YOUR NEWS of whether to worry and what has(not) been stolen recently
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:04PM
By the mid/late 1980s this was the only scenario where one of the Media General boxes was necessary.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:08PM
VLCTT Wrote:
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> the new cable boxes still "drive" old "non cable
> ready" TVs
>
> i'm unsure the new cable boxes even support
> "digital output" (meaning, TCP output to asian
> flatscreen tv's) in a way customers can use
>
> your full of shit
I do not watch tv anymore.
-------------------------------------------------------
> the new cable boxes still "drive" old "non cable
> ready" TVs
>
> i'm unsure the new cable boxes even support
> "digital output" (meaning, TCP output to asian
> flatscreen tv's) in a way customers can use
>
> your full of shit
I do not watch tv anymore.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:14PM
wNbJe Wrote:
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> the boxes are still "signal blockers", blocking tv
> reception from the home not enabling it
>
> any PC is perfectly capable of TCP/IP listening to
> an MPEG-STREAM, if they are not encryption blocked
> from doign so, and have a guide telling them when
> to tune in
>
> anyone remember Steve Jobs famous MPEG stream
> broadcast?
>
> again, your full of crap. today's iphone,tablet,
> or pc connected to a flatscreen has ALL IT NEEDS
> to tune into INFINITE NUMBER OF BROADCASTS,
> meaning - any broadcasts that are not blocked by
> COX cable and or telephone companies from
> end-pointing to the consumers paying the bills
Again I tell you I do not watch tv anymore.
-------------------------------------------------------
> the boxes are still "signal blockers", blocking tv
> reception from the home not enabling it
>
> any PC is perfectly capable of TCP/IP listening to
> an MPEG-STREAM, if they are not encryption blocked
> from doign so, and have a guide telling them when
> to tune in
>
> anyone remember Steve Jobs famous MPEG stream
> broadcast?
>
> again, your full of crap. today's iphone,tablet,
> or pc connected to a flatscreen has ALL IT NEEDS
> to tune into INFINITE NUMBER OF BROADCASTS,
> meaning - any broadcasts that are not blocked by
> COX cable and or telephone companies from
> end-pointing to the consumers paying the bills
Again I tell you I do not watch tv anymore.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:18PM
mP7eG Wrote:
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> DVD is just MPEG with java support, which is OLD
> OLD OLD NEWS
>
> MPEG lowers the quality of broadcast - deleting
> colors and pixel motions, but does save allot of
> bandwidth
>
> ------------------
> old tv's tuners cannot work with COX boxes they
> said "tough luck throw away"
>
> newer tv's tuners (ie, early 90's) have analog
> signal decoders that "were good enough"
>
> but the ONLY REASON people stuck with TVs instead
> of PC Montitors: cost, PCs were expensive - and
> monitors the size of a TV: $2000 - $6000
>
> Today: same shit either way same price. no need
> for a cable box
>
>
I do not watch tv anymore. If there is something I really want to watch (which is a rarity) I will just watch it online
-------------------------------------------------------
> DVD is just MPEG with java support, which is OLD
> OLD OLD NEWS
>
> MPEG lowers the quality of broadcast - deleting
> colors and pixel motions, but does save allot of
> bandwidth
>
> ------------------
> old tv's tuners cannot work with COX boxes they
> said "tough luck throw away"
>
> newer tv's tuners (ie, early 90's) have analog
> signal decoders that "were good enough"
>
> but the ONLY REASON people stuck with TVs instead
> of PC Montitors: cost, PCs were expensive - and
> monitors the size of a TV: $2000 - $6000
>
> Today: same shit either way same price. no need
> for a cable box
>
>
> In europe (ie, germany) some cable companies give
> free access to "tv" to laptops - no box required
>
> For that to work one needs a minimally capable
> internet router and mutlimedia PC. However.
> democrats have continually fucked over that same
> technology to attack the ability of PCs to operate
> as "valid set top boxes". they dont want
> competition. and NY,NY still wants to be the only
> provider of stock trading listing and YOUR NEWS of
> whether to worry and what has(not) been stolen
> recently
>
I do not watch tv anymore. If there is something I really want to watch (which is a rarity) I will just watch it online
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
one time installer
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:31PM
jnjnjn Wrote:
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I was a sub- contract cable installer in 1994. If an installer came up with a box that had no paperwork they could sell it to the guy who oversaw the installs. He sold it to a MGC tech. The installers could then buy it from the tech for $250 then resell to the customer for $300-500. It was pretty lucrative for some. Then the guy overseeing (joe minor) the installs got caught leaving the Springfield MGC office with a couple crates of boxes. The sub company got disbanded. I guess Joe snitched because they raided the MGC techs apartment in falls church and found 10,000 (yes, 10,000) boxes in there. MGC ended up sending what they called a missile through the line that fried the chip in all the hot boxes. The only ones that survived were the ones that were disconnected at that moment.
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I was a sub- contract cable installer in 1994. If an installer came up with a box that had no paperwork they could sell it to the guy who oversaw the installs. He sold it to a MGC tech. The installers could then buy it from the tech for $250 then resell to the customer for $300-500. It was pretty lucrative for some. Then the guy overseeing (joe minor) the installs got caught leaving the Springfield MGC office with a couple crates of boxes. The sub company got disbanded. I guess Joe snitched because they raided the MGC techs apartment in falls church and found 10,000 (yes, 10,000) boxes in there. MGC ended up sending what they called a missile through the line that fried the chip in all the hot boxes. The only ones that survived were the ones that were disconnected at that moment.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
jePKN
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:35PM
Biggest scam in county history? Wrote:
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> Problem Solved Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > What is Media General?
> >
> > Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
>
> Are you a fucking transplant who just moved here
> recently and is contributing to our traffic
> congestion?
NO! I've been contributing to the traffic congestion since I was 15 1/2!
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> Problem Solved Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > What is Media General?
> >
> > Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
>
> Are you a fucking transplant who just moved here
> recently and is contributing to our traffic
> congestion?
NO! I've been contributing to the traffic congestion since I was 15 1/2!
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:36PM
one time installer Wrote:
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> jnjnjn Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > My brother had one with the descrambler. He
> never
> > paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the
> pay
> > per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> > even a subscriber.
> >
> > Good times.
>
>
> I was a sub- contract cable installer in 1994. If
> an installer came up with a box that had no
> paperwork they could sell it to the guy who
> oversaw the installs. He sold it to a MGC tech.
> The installers could then buy it from the tech for
> $250 then resell to the customer for $300-500. It
> was pretty lucrative for some. Then the guy
> overseeing (joe minor) the installs got caught
> leaving the Springfield MGC office with a couple
> crates of boxes. The sub company got disbanded. I
> guess Joe snitched because they raided the MGC
> techs apartment in falls church and found 10,000
> (yes, 10,000) boxes in there. MGC ended up sending
> what they called a missile through the line that
> fried the chip in all the hot boxes. The only ones
> that survived were the ones that were disconnected
> at that moment.
What year did they finally stop using the brown boxes?
2000?
2001?
2002?
When was Media General sold to Cox?
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> jnjnjn Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > My brother had one with the descrambler. He
> never
> > paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the
> pay
> > per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> > even a subscriber.
> >
> > Good times.
>
>
> I was a sub- contract cable installer in 1994. If
> an installer came up with a box that had no
> paperwork they could sell it to the guy who
> oversaw the installs. He sold it to a MGC tech.
> The installers could then buy it from the tech for
> $250 then resell to the customer for $300-500. It
> was pretty lucrative for some. Then the guy
> overseeing (joe minor) the installs got caught
> leaving the Springfield MGC office with a couple
> crates of boxes. The sub company got disbanded. I
> guess Joe snitched because they raided the MGC
> techs apartment in falls church and found 10,000
> (yes, 10,000) boxes in there. MGC ended up sending
> what they called a missile through the line that
> fried the chip in all the hot boxes. The only ones
> that survived were the ones that were disconnected
> at that moment.
What year did they finally stop using the brown boxes?
2000?
2001?
2002?
When was Media General sold to Cox?
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Biggest scam in county history?
()
Date: July 12, 2015 04:37PM
jePKN Wrote:
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> Biggest scam in county history? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Problem Solved Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > What is Media General?
> > >
> > > Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
> >
> > Are you a fucking transplant who just moved
> here
> > recently and is contributing to our traffic
> > congestion?
>
> NO! I've been contributing to the traffic
> congestion since I was 15 1/2!
Media General must have been before your time.
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> Biggest scam in county history? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Problem Solved Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > What is Media General?
> > >
> > > Get Verizon FIOS. Problem solved.
> >
> > Are you a fucking transplant who just moved
> here
> > recently and is contributing to our traffic
> > congestion?
>
> NO! I've been contributing to the traffic
> congestion since I was 15 1/2!
Media General must have been before your time.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: July 12, 2015 08:45PM
Biggest scam in county history? Wrote:
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> What year did they finally stop using the brown
> boxes?
>
> 2000?
> 2001?
> 2002?
>
> When was Media General sold to Cox?
The cable boxes went away around in there, I *think*--not sure. But GIYF re when Cox bought 'em: http://www.mediageneral.com/about/history/history_1951.html says 1999.
Remember how broadband was RoadRunner at first?
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> What year did they finally stop using the brown
> boxes?
>
> 2000?
> 2001?
> 2002?
>
> When was Media General sold to Cox?
The cable boxes went away around in there, I *think*--not sure. But GIYF re when Cox bought 'em: http://www.mediageneral.com/about/history/history_1951.html says 1999.
Remember how broadband was RoadRunner at first?
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: July 12, 2015 08:48PM
Biggest scam in county history? Wrote:
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> goodguys-tech-stereo-vcr-ad-april-1987-3-620x801.j
> pg">
Nice ad. I especially like the $248 19" Goldstar unit. That's the same Goldstar that's LG now, of course.
I paid $629 in 1987 for a 27" TV. Think of what $629 will buy you today in a TV--and in modern, much smaller dollars! Online converter suggests that $629 is over $1300 in today's dollars...
That TV still works. Well, it would if I plugged it back in...
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> src="http://clickamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/
> goodguys-tech-stereo-vcr-ad-april-1987-3-620x801.j
> pg">
Nice ad. I especially like the $248 19" Goldstar unit. That's the same Goldstar that's LG now, of course.
I paid $629 in 1987 for a 27" TV. Think of what $629 will buy you today in a TV--and in modern, much smaller dollars! Online converter suggests that $629 is over $1300 in today's dollars...
That TV still works. Well, it would if I plugged it back in...
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
hMHYy
()
Date: July 13, 2015 12:46AM
Goldstar i think is a Texas electronics brand - or was
LG is some ny,ny franchise using for importing i'd think. there was never an LG factory anywhere making a product
LG is some ny,ny franchise using for importing i'd think. there was never an LG factory anywhere making a product
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Cable box
()
Date: July 13, 2015 01:01AM
You still need a cable box dumbass.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
VLGDD
()
Date: July 13, 2015 01:08AM
Cable box Wrote:
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> You still need a cable box dumbass.
During the time Media General still required its customers to use the antique brown cable boxes, there were cable outlets all across the USA who allowed their customers to input the cable signal directly into their cable ready televisions.
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> You still need a cable box dumbass.
During the time Media General still required its customers to use the antique brown cable boxes, there were cable outlets all across the USA who allowed their customers to input the cable signal directly into their cable ready televisions.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
like it was 1999
()
Date: July 13, 2015 06:57AM
jnjnjn Wrote:
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I got hooked up with one of those for a short time from an old college buddy who was renting a room from me, it was pretty sweet while it lasted. I remember it was summer of 1999 because I had the Woodstock PPV on all weekend. We watched the Waterboy and the Jerry Springer movie about a thousand times.
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> My brother had one with the descrambler. He never
> paid a cent for like 7 years. He got all the pay
> per view, Spice, Playboy for free and he wasn't
> even a subscriber.
>
> Good times.
I got hooked up with one of those for a short time from an old college buddy who was renting a room from me, it was pretty sweet while it lasted. I remember it was summer of 1999 because I had the Woodstock PPV on all weekend. We watched the Waterboy and the Jerry Springer movie about a thousand times.
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: July 13, 2015 09:52PM
hMHYy Wrote:
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> Goldstar i think is a Texas electronics brand - or
> was
>
> LG is some ny,ny franchise using for importing i'd
> think. there was never an LG factory anywhere
> making a product
Don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldStar
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> Goldstar i think is a Texas electronics brand - or
> was
>
> LG is some ny,ny franchise using for importing i'd
> think. there was never an LG factory anywhere
> making a product
Don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldStar
Re: So as recently as the year 2000 Media General Cable still required county residents with cable ready televisions to use these ancient brown cable boxes?
Posted by:
cable_cable
()
Date: July 14, 2015 10:07AM
I remember I had one of those with a de-scrambler on it and got every channel.